Beacon House

Beacon House is a substantial building dated 1911, featuring a two-storey front with ten bays. It is constructed of high-quality red brick, with some gault bricks, and adorned with rich ochre terracotta dressings in the Edwardian Baroque style. The two storeys of windows are set within a full-height arcade, and from the impost level to the parapet, the façade is entirely faced in terracotta. Decorative scrolls are placed on the caps of the piers, and the keystones rise into the modillion brackets of the coved cornice. The central two bays are highlighted by slight breaks in the cornice and a raised section of the parapet, while the terracotta detailing is particularly elaborate on the end bays, featuring banding on the piers and tall parapet sections with intricately modeled swagged garlands over the large keystones, which hang from scrolls in the centre of the cornice mouldings. The office entrance is located in the right-hand end bay, framed by an architrave surround, a garlanded keystone, and a projecting cornice.