The Beeches

The Beeches is a house dating back to the 16th century, constructed in two phases with later additions. It is timber-framed and rendered, with asbestos slates and old plaintiles on the roof. The southern gable end is built of red brick in English bond, with a raised band at eaves level, corbels, plain coping, and a chimney stack with a plain square shaft. The west front features a late 19th-century upper canted bay window with large-paned sashes and an Edwardian rounded bay window below with a shallow slate roof. The east (garden) front has sash windows on the upper floor and applied mock-timbering, with remnants of decorative plasterwork (comb-pargetting) beneath. A single-story porch with a slate roof sits at the angle between the two ranges, and a 20th-century plank door provides access.

The east-west range exhibits close studding on the upper floor and arched braces at the angles. Evidence suggests there were originally two diamond-mullioned windows on the west gable wall, with two diamond-mullioned windows remaining along the north wall, and housings along the south side. The gable wall at the east end has been cut away below the tie-beam, which also has diamond-mullion housings. In this range, the principal rafters carry low collars. The north-south range is divided into several sections, and the oldest part is of similar date to the east-west range, originally positioned corner-to-corner before a later extension connected them in the northeast angle. Two bays incorporate cambered tie-beams and long arched braces, some of which have been removed. A plain crown-post roof is present above. One bay may have originally lacked an upper floor, as its end wall, with tension bracing, has a three-light diamond-mullioned window set at the level of the current upper floor. The southern end bay is a clear 18th-century addition, coinciding with the brick gable. Ground floor bays contain widely-spaced joists set on edge. Inside the east-west range, a staircase features barley-sugar-twist balusters and a moulded handrail.