Bevere House

Bevere House is a country house located in a landscaped park, now converted into flats. It was built in the mid-18th century by Anthony Keck and underwent alterations in the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The house features a stucco exterior and a hipped slate roof behind a front parapet, with large brick stacks at the rear. It is three storeys tall with a cellar, showcasing a modillion eaves cornice at the front, a band between the ground and first floors, and sill bands at all three levels. The facade has a one:three:one bay arrangement, with the central bays projecting forward beneath a pediment. The windows are adorned with moulded, eared, and shouldered architraves that include projecting keyblocks. The ground floor has large glazing bar sashes, the first floor has smaller ones, and the second floor features six-pane sashes. The central bay windows have plain surrounds, while the first floor includes a Venetian window with consoles beneath each jamb, and the second floor features a Diocletian window and an oculus with radiating tracery on the pediment. The central entrance is highlighted by a tetrastyle Ionic portico and a doorway with a moulded architrave and consoles, part-glazed double doors, and a rectangular traceried fanlight.

Inside, the house has been significantly altered, but the main rooms have retained their ceiling mouldings. The left front room includes an Adam style fireplace, while the rear left room features a modillion ceiling cornice, panelled walls, a shell niche, and a panelled cupboard flanking the fireplace. The entrance hall has an open well staircase leading to all three floors, with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. Dr. Treadwell Russell Nash, the county historian, purchased the estate at Bevere shortly after his marriage in 1758 and lived at Bevere House during the latter half of the 18th century.