Great Beeleigh Farmhouse

Great Beeleigh Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century and around 1840. It is constructed of red Flemish bond brick with roofs made of Welsh slate and plain tiles. The building has two storeys, cellars, and consists of two parallel ranges along with a service wing at the rear.

The front range, built around 1840, features a gabled slate roof with fascia returns at the ends and two projecting chimney stacks. On the first floor, there are three small-paned sash windows with gauged brick arches. The ground floor has two similar windows and a central doorcase adorned with fluted segmental-curved simplified Doric pilasters and an entablature decorated with cast-iron laurel wreaths, acanthus scrolls, and a central honeysuckle motif. The door itself has two moulded panels with semicircular heads above two flush panels and an overlight with margin glazing bars.

The rear parallel range, slightly older, is also made of red Flemish-bond brick and features steep gables, plain tiles, and an angled brick eaves cornice. On the rear, there is a sash window on the first floor above a casement with a cast-iron opening light, which includes a late 17th-century fitting, a small area of leaded lights, and iron security bars. The rear service range is partly two-storey and partly single-storey, constructed of red mid-19th century brick with a gabled slate roof and a hipped slate roof. A large chimney stack rises at the back of the 17th-century range. Between the 17th-century range and the service wing, there is a first-floor brick-walled room that forms an open porch on the ground floor.

Inside, the front range has a central entrance hall with a straight-flight staircase featuring column newels, stick balusters, and reeded strings. The door leading to the 17th-century range has coloured glass inserts and margin glazing. The 17th-century section retains some exposed framing, including a tie beam, a substantial wall post, and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. This part of the house also includes a double walk-in larder from the early 19th century, complete with fitted cupboards, drawers, and shelves, preserving much of its early character.