Beech Tree Farm Cottage

Beech Tree Farm Cottage is a house dating from the mid 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame with clay lump and brick additions, which are plastered. It has steeply pitched roofs covered with plain tiles and pantiles. The layout consists of a two-cell lobby entrance plan with service additions forming an L shape. The cottage is two storeys high with an attic.

The central entrance is located in a 19th-century gabled porch, which includes a six-panelled door and a rectangular fanlight, all surrounded by a bracketed hood. The windows are three-light part-opening glazing bar casements, although the first-floor window on the left is blind. The eaves are boxed, and there is a central axial ridge stack with recessed panels at the base, topped with four conjoined hexagonal shafts that have been rebuilt with oversailing caps. The gable ends feature pentice boards, exposed plates, and double purlins.

At the rear, there is an original short gabled wing that is slightly lower than the main structure, with a three-light casement on the first floor. An early stack is adjacent to a 19th-century service addition on the right, while a small lean-to outshut is located on the left. There is also a lower two-storey, two-cell 19th-century wing on the rear left, which is brick-faced and includes an entrance and ground floor casements with segmental heads. A 20th-century addition is present at the rear.

Inside, the framing is concealed, but all rooms feature ogee and bar stop chamfered binding beams, with axial beams on the ground floor and cross axial beams on the first floor. The joists are runout chamfered, and the stairs are located behind the stack.