The Beeches And Railings

This is an early 19th-century house, and possibly with an earlier core, located on the east side of Spixworth Road in Old Catton. The house is rendered with slate and black pantile roofs. It is a double-pile building, two stories high, with a flat-roofed extension to the north and a hipped-roof extension to the south. The west-facing facade has five windows and a central six-panel door, set within a doorcase featuring panelled pilasters and a pediment supported by consoles. The first-floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars, and the windows have louvres. A brick modillion cornice runs along the top of the facade, and there are parapet gables with stacks at each end of the piles. An off-centre axial stack is present on the west pile. The north and south extensions are not considered to be of particular interest. Wrought iron railings are attached to the house on either side of the door, forming two enclosures with a segmental plan. The railings have fluted piers with finials, intermediate piers with fleur-de-lys finials, a dog-rail with spear top finials, and scrolled segmental arches above with rosettes in the spandrels.