Abbey Farmhouse

Abbey Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 18th century, with an earlier core, located on the site of the south range of the conventual buildings of Beeston Regis Priory. The building is constructed of flint with brick dressings and features a glazed black pantile roof. It has a rectangular, three-cell plan with a 20th-century extension to the rear.

The facade consists of four bays and is two storeys high. The original casement windows were replaced around 1980 with late 18th-century style windows that have four lights and a transom; the reveals were rendered and rusticated, also renewed around 1980, and previously featured keystones, with double windows on the ground floor. The entrance has a pedimented doorcase, which was renewed around 1980, and there is a 19th-century doorway to the right of the fourth bay. There is evidence of earlier openings on both the ground and first floors. The building has a brick dentil eaves cornice of the three-header type and features two axial stacks and gable end stacks.

The eastern gable wall was rebuilt in flint with brick banding and is dated 1891. In the north-west corner at the rear, there is a re-used 13th-century column base. On the upper floor, at the eastern end, a six-light diamond mullion window was revealed during restoration.

Inside, there is a small passageway with a domed plaster vault featuring narrow ribs and a rose. The western ground floor room has an apsidal end flanked by doorways. Restoration work revealed remains of a timber frame with heavy scantling in the north wall, and the principal beams on the first floor have wide chamfers in the central and eastern rooms, possibly dating from the early 16th century. There is evidence that a single-storey western bay was added around 1700 and heightened to two storeys in the late 18th century. The two axial stacks are off-centre and have been corbelled out to align with the late 18th-century ridge line, likely when the rear outshut was incorporated under the new roof.