Beddell House

Beddell House is a former infirmary, now an elderly persons' home, built around 1868 by Austin and Johnson. The building is constructed of snecked sandstone with stone dressings and features Welsh slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. It is designed in an H-plan layout on a site that slopes from right to left, showcasing a Gothic style.

The front of the building is long and symmetrical, consisting of two and three storeys with attics. The centerpiece projects forward and includes a two-storey square porch, flanked by taller cross-gabled wings. Behind this, there is a continuous range with five-bay sections on either side of the centerpiece; the left section is elevated above a four-bay buttressed loggia with pointed arches. The large cross-gabled end wings project to the front and rear, with the left wing being three storeys high due to the slope of the site, while the right wing features a slightly taller eight-bay extension at the rear.

The building predominantly has pointed openings with sill bands. The centerpiece includes a buttressed porch with a pointed doorway, along with shouldered and trefoil-headed lancets arranged in pairs or groups of four. The ground-floor windows are mainly two-light with quatrefoils and continuous hoodmoulds, while the first floor features mainly paired trefoil-headed lancets. The long central range has small gabled dormers. The angle-buttressed end wings have similar window designs and wide gabled bays that project forward, ending in tall battered stacks. The left wing includes a large four-light window in the gable and a three-storey square-plan porch on the left return. The steeply-pitched roofs have coped gables and transverse ridge stacks.

The rear of the building is plainer, with scattered openings that mostly have shouldered heads. There is a single-storey, late 19th-century flat-roofed wing at right angles on the inner return of the extension on the right wing. A 20th-century one-storey brick garage at the rear is not of interest.