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Description: | The Jacobean mansion of Southwick, which had been built on the site of the mediaeval priory was demolished early in the 19th century. Thomas Thislethwayte, the owner of the estate, built a new mansion on higher ground away from the damp low lying situation of the previous house. It was a two storeyed house with a big central bow window to each storey and a long veranda to the ground storey. This house was burnt out in 1838 and rebuilt on a larger scale in 1841 to the design of Sydney Howell but a print of the old house suggests that the present building is largely based on the older one with a third storey added. The south front, overlooking the garden has a central broad bow rising through all three storeys, three bays of windows on either side and three windows on each floor within the bow. The bow arrangement and window disposition are derived from the earlier house. Along the length of the ground floor is a wide stone veranda curving round the bow, supported by Ionic columns singly or in pairs.
The east front is of 5 bays, the centre part having three projecting bays and containing the main entrance. The walls are stuccoed.
The building is used by HMS Dryad, the School of Navigation moved from Portsmouth Dockyard during WW2. There are many new buildings in the grounds including WRNS quarters, ratings quarters and an administration block.
The house has a permanent place in history because it is where the preparations for the D-Day landings were organised and controlled.
Reference:
1. Pevsner, Nikolaus and Lloyd, David. 1967. Buildings of England. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, p. 607-608.
2. Lloyd, David. 1974. Buildings of Portsmouth and its environs, p. 117. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Crown Copyright/MOD. Reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office | Subjects: | Sydney Howell building Southwick House D-Day priory HMS Dryad house architecture WRNS School of Navigation Thomas Thislethwayte Jacobean Portsmouth Dockyard | Temporal: | start=1989-01-01; end=1989-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Ministry of Defence, HMS Dryad | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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