
As you arrive amid the lush and rolling hills of historic Franklin, Tennessee, you find yourself breathing more deeply. Southall is an extraordinary resort where experiences are meant to be savored — a working farm, an inviting inn, dining and spa experiences that honor the cycles of nature.
Project
Southall Farm & Inn
Location
Franklin, Tennessee
Discipline
Heavy Timber Hospitality
Details
Completed 2022 · 325-acre working farm & luxury resort · heavy timber structures across the estate
A vast expanse of farmland — 325 acres — surrounds you, with greenhouses on one side, and rows of heritage crops, orchards, and gardens on the other. On the winding road that leads in, you begin to understand the purpose of this place. You are already immersed in the journey of the land and those who came before us.
Southall is the perfect blend of old and new, tradition and innovation — the evolution of Southern hospitality. An estate just outside of Nashville designed around the connections we crave in a world that too often rushes past the things that matter most.
Hearthstone was called on to raise the heavy timber structures that anchor the property — gathering halls and outbuildings framed in the same joinery language we've used since 1971. The frames were cut in Newport, Tennessee, trucked west to Franklin, and stood over the rolling hills of Middle Tennessee to become part of a place designed to slow the pace of a life that too often rushes past.
A working farm. An inviting inn. Dining and spa experiences that incorporate the bounty of the land. This is Southall — and the timber frames behind it are meant to be there for the next hundred years of guests.