Beckingham House

Beckingham House is a house that dates from the mid-19th century or earlier, with a late 19th-century front and 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of red brick with some sandstone ashlar dressings at the rear and has a stucco front. The roof is covered with pantiles. The building has two storeys and consists of four bays, featuring a three-bay symmetrical section on the right and a single bay wing to the left.

The house has a plinth and pilasters at the corners and between the first and second bays. The ground floor is rusticated, and the entrance is located in the third bay. It features a flat-roofed porch with a plain entablature and cornice supported by Tuscan columns, leading to a recessed part-glazed door beneath a blocked overlight, flanked by pilasters. There are full-height canted bay windows on either side of the entrance, which have sash windows, moulded cornices, and recessed panels between the floors.

On the left wing, there is a 12-pane sash window in an architrave with a bracketed cill and a plain shouldered and eared surround with raised roundels. Above this, on the first floor, is a similar window, along with a sash window above the entrance that has a raised surround with a moulded cornice and a hood supported by consoles. The building features a modillioned entablature, a frieze with circular floral ornament, and a moulded cornice.

The parapet is situated between the coped pillar extensions of the pilasters and has a segmental-arched and stepped section over the three bays to the right, adorned with a wreath ornament. The rear of the house, which faces the street, has bays defined by pilasters with moulded stone capitals. There is a part-glazed door on the right with a plain overlight in a panelled reveal, featuring a beaded surround and hood. In the second bay, there is a part-glazed door beneath a porch leading to an adjoining outhouse range, which includes a colpured glass casement to the right and a 12-pane sash window in a flush wooden architrave in the third bay. The first floor has a band and four similar sashes above. The building has a projecting parapet with low triangular concrete slab-coped sections between the stone-coped pillar extensions of the pilasters. The interior of the house is noted as having no special interest.