Beswick Hall

Beswick Hall is a house dating from around 1590. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, featuring burnt brick diapering and stone dressings, topped with a plain tile roof. Originally, the house was two storeys high with four bays, but only the right bay retains this original layout, as the rest of the house was converted to three storeys around 1840.

The building has a raised plinth and stone quoins. The central entrance features a door with six raised and fielded panels, topped by a fanlight with radial glazing, all set within a pilastered doorcase and open pediment. The right bay includes a five-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom window under a hoodmould with lozenge stops, while the other bays have 25-pane unequal sashes beneath segmental brick arches. On the first floor, the right bay again has a five-light ovolo-moulded window under a hoodmould with lozenge stops, and the remaining bays feature 25-pane unequal sashes. The second floor, in the left bays only, has 25-pane unequal sashes.

The house has a dentilled brick eaves cornice, raised coped gables, and both end and axial stacks, with the end stacks having linked triple square flues. Due to the changes made around 1840, the ground floor of the right bay is significantly higher than that of the other bays, and beneath it is a basement lit by two-light mullioned windows. The right elevation includes a two-light square-headed window in the basement, two three-light mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor, and two similar (blocked) three-light windows with painted glazing on the first floor, along with a blocked two-light window in the attic.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century cut-string staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. While most of the interior fittings are from the house's remodelling, there are several early 18th-century three-panel bolection-moulded doors with their original catches.