Beech House British Waterways Board Canal Maintenance Depot, Beech House (Nos. 2-6), Shropshire Union Canal (South East Side) (Llangollen Branch)

Beech House is a canal office, now converted into flats, built in 1806 as part of the Ellesmere Canal designed by William Jessop and Thomas Telford. The building features red brick construction with hipped slate roofs, which are splayed to a semi-circular projection at the north-west corner, and has prominent ridge stacks. The main block consists of three by two bays, with a semi-circular projection at the rear right corner and slightly later service wings and outbuildings set back to the left. It is two storeys high and has a painted dentilled eaves cornice.

The east front has three windows, which are glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, except for a late 19th-century canted bay window at the lower left. The central entrance features a pedimented doorcase with six-paned double doors and a wreathed and radiating fanlight. The semi-circular projection has five glazing-bar sashes on the first floor and four on the ground floor, along with a pedimented doorcase in the second bay from the left, with several of the windows being blind. The committee room of the canal company was located on the ground floor of the semi-circular projection, overlooking the three branches of the canal.

Historically, this building is a fine example of a canal office and is prominent in views of the notable and historically significant canal yard, which is the best-preserved complex of its type in Britain. It was likely built under the designs of Telford and Jessop, who were responsible for a variety of structures related to canal operations, including maintenance yards for boats, locks, and other aspects of inland waterways.