Southill House
Location within Somerset
General information
Town or city	Cranmore
Country	England
Coordinates	51°10′55″N 2°28′15″W / 51.1819°N 2.4708°W / 51.1819; -2.4708
Completed	Early 18th century

Southill House in Cranmore, Somerset, England, is an early 18th-century manor house. It was given a new facade by John Wood, the Younger, of Bath, in the late 18th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.^[1]

The house is on a site which may have been used for Roman buildings including a hypocaust.^[2][3]

The current 18th-century building includes some remains from a 17th-century building,.^[4] standing in a landscaped park.^[5]

in World War II the house was used as a base for the Auxiliary Unit Scout Patrol.^[6]

The house received moderate publicity in 1998 when a "cow grazing near the croquet lawn" fell through the turf into a forgotten tunnel. The writings of a Victorian servant in the house, Edwin Charles Cox, revealed that the passages were said to be haunted but upon his exploration only contained remainder furniture.^[7]

In 2011 the house was short-listed in a competition run by Country Life magazine to find England's Favourite House and was chosen as the South West regional winner.^[8][9][10] The house was owned by the Cotterell family for over 10 years who then eventually sold the house to Stephen Ellis, a London banker.

See also

• List of Grade I listed buildings in Mendip

References