Great Beazleys

Great Beazleys is a house dating from the 17th century with 20th-century extensions, located on West Road in High Wych. It is constructed with a timber frame, plaster and a red tile roof.

The original plan is unclear but may have been a two-unit house with a passage running from the front door behind the chimney stack. The south front is five bays wide and two storeys tall, with three-light modern casement windows with small panes and a modern lean-to porch at the centre. The building has a red tile half-hipped roof. The earliest section comprises the bays immediately to the left and right of the central chimney stack, dating to the 17th century. The end bay to the west was added in the early 20th century, though internal evidence suggests the use of older timbers. The two bays to the right of the front porch and a two-storey block attached to the rear north-east are additions dating from 1967 to 1989 and are not of special interest.

The interior contains a large red-brick chimney stack on the left side of the entrance hall, with a passage at the rear leading to the principal room. This room displays significant 17th-century timber framing, including wall posts with jowled heads, sill beams and heavy ceiling beams. There is a large brick fireplace with a herringbone back and deep-chamfered bressumer. The principal feature is a stop-chamfered axial beam with "I.R. 1612" carefully cut into its south face. The western end of this room beyond the beam was added in the early 20th century. Two of the first-floor bedrooms retain exposed 17th-century timbers including extended jowl posts and tiebeams. The roof was rebuilt to a flatter pitch by adapting the old roof structure, which internal evidence shows was originally a clasped purlin roof with wind braces.

The house was built in the 17th century, evidenced by a beam dated 1612 in its oldest section. The western end was built by the early 20th century and appears on the 1921 Ordnance Survey map. The building was considerably extended to the east and north-east between 1967 and 1989. A barn of sun-dried brick formerly stood to the south-east, recorded by the Victoria County History and the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in the early 20th century, but this was demolished and replaced with a garage and cottage block in the 1970s.

The detached block to the south-east comprising Beazleys Cottage and two garages was built in the 1970s and does not form part of this listing.