Beech House And Attached Railings

Beech House, located at 19 Market Street in Atherstone, is a house that now partly serves as a doctor's surgery. It dates from 1708, as indicated by a later stone above the basement and on the rainwater head at the rear. The building is constructed of Flemish bond brick with painted stone dressings and features an old plain-tile hipped roof. It has 19th-century brick internal stacks on both sides and is designed in the Queen Anne style.

The house is two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and consists of five bays. The regular front has a stone basement and is adorned with rusticated quoin strips, a moulded string course, and moulded and dentil cornices. The ground floor features three wood and iron two-light casements with glazing bars, and there are steps leading to the entrance on the left. The entrance includes a late 18th-century six-panelled door and fanlight with panelled reveals, framed by a stucco Tuscan doorcase with half columns and an open pediment, which has paterae above the capitals.

The windows on the first floor are 18-pane sashes with thick glazing bars and brick flat arches, which have moulded keystones that interrupt the string course. The fifth bay has a flush six-panelled door at street level, with a stucco panel above and a flat arch with a keystone. There are also two box roof dormers with windows that have glazing bars.

The interior of Beech House is largely unaltered, retaining most of its original features. The hall includes a heavy moulded cornice, a bolection moulded chimneypiece, and an arch leading to the stairhall. The fine moulded-string dog-leg staircase features turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newels. The front parlour and the chamber above have bolection panelling, moulded cornices, and later 18th-century or early 19th-century marble chimneypieces, along with panelled doors.