Bealings House

Bealings House is a late 18th-century house situated off Rosery Lane in Great Bealings. It is constructed of red English and Flemish bond brick, finished with a plain tile roof. The house is two storeys high with an attic.

The front elevation features a projecting plinth of English bond brick beneath the Flemish bond walling. It has seven bays arranged symmetrically, with a prominent central door surround featuring Ionic demi-columns framing a door of eight raised and fielded panels, a convex frieze, dentilled cornice, and a segmental pediment with small consoles. Sash windows with exposed weight boxes containing twelve panes are positioned on either side of the door. A decorative band of three bricks runs between the ground and first floors, and the first floor mirrors the ground floor with sash windows of the same design. A richly moulded cornice with hollow dentils and moulded consoles sits above the first floor windows, surmounted by a brick panelled parapet. Behind the parapet is a gabled roof with four pedimental dormers; the dormer on the left has two casement lights, while those on the right are sash windows.

The right-hand side of the house has blocked basement windows with cambered heads, and a first-floor sash window with twelve panes. An extension is present to the right, featuring a slightly projecting plinth with a blocked basement window and a three-light casement window on the left and a two-light casement on the right. The first floor of the extension has two sash windows with twelve panes and a round window, while the attic has two pedimental dormer windows, each with two lights. The left-hand side has a blank gable end and an extending wing with a hipped end. This wing features a two-light casement window, a half-glazed door with a flat-arched head, a sash window with two panes by two panes, and another sash window with four panes by four panes. The first floor of this wing mirrors the front elevation with sash windows of twelve panes, and an additional service window with a two-paned sash. The rear courtyard area, situated between the projecting wings, has lean-to additions to the re-entrant angles.

The interior of the house includes a drawing room with 20th-century classical fire surrounds and arched niches that replaced earlier shelves. The dining room features a white, variegated marble fire surround. The staircase has two flights with a quarter-landing, incorporating moulded tread ends with foliate detail, stick balusters, a moulded ramped handrail with a wreathed curtail. The landing features a moulded cornice with rinceau decoration, round-arched niches with shelves and moulded springers and keystones, fluted door surrounds with paterae to the upper corners. Several first-floor rooms have hob grates with neo-classical decoration, and one first-floor room has a 19th-century French chimney piece of marble and gilded bronze. A spiral staircase with stick balusters and a moulded handrail leads to the attic floor.