The Beeches

The Beeches is a farmhouse located in Croxton, Humberside. The north wing dates from the 18th century but has origins in the 17th century, with mid-19th century alterations, a 19th century entrance porch, and a south wing. The building features brick in Flemish bond for the 18th and 19th century sections, while the rear of the north wing is in English bond. The north wing was formerly colour-washed and has Welsh slate roofs. The main structure is T-shaped, consisting of an early two-room central entrance-hall in the north range, a later 18th century single-room wing to the rear right, and a 19th century two-room central entrance-hall south cross wing to the left.

The north range is two storeys with an attic and has five first-floor windows arranged symmetrically. It features an enclosed flat-roofed brick porch with a chamfered plinth, a recessed half-glazed panelled door with an overlight beneath a wedge lintel, and a pair of sash side lights in reveals beneath similar lintels. The ground-floor windows are 19th century sashes with margin lights in flush wooden architraves, projecting sills, and segmental header arches. The first-floor windows are similar but narrower, with the central window having coloured margin lights. The eaves cornice is stepped and cogged in brick, with a moulded wooden eaves cornice above. The gable is stone-coped with tumbled brick and shaped kneelers to the right, and there are slightly projecting end stacks to the right and an axial stack to the left.

The south wing also has a chamfered plinth and features a recessed half-glazed panelled door with an overlight beneath a wedge lintel, flanked by sashes with margin lights in reveals with sills and wedge lintels. The first-floor windows are similar but narrower. It has a stepped eaves band and a cogged brick eaves cornice, with stone-coped gables and shaped kneelers, as well as end stacks.

Inside the north range, there is a fine late 17th to early 18th century staircase featuring a single flight and a short lower flight at right angles, with a closed string, large bulb-on-bulb balusters, a moulded handrail, and a similar balustraded dado in half-profile. The hall and the left room on the ground floor have a moulded dado-rail, and the main rooms feature boxed-in spine beams. There are three fielded-panel doors, one leading to the rear wing with L-hinges.