40, Beeches Avenue

This is a two-story, two-bay house built between 1903 and 1904 in Carshalton Beeches for Frank Dickinson, who designed the house and largely constructed its interior fittings. The exterior is very plain, featuring roughcast walls and a green slate roof. The northern bay projects forward and is gabled, with a four-light window above and a five-light splayed bay window below. The southern bay is set at a right angle to the northern bay, with a low-sloping roof over the porch; a four-light dormer window is above the porch. The front door has a decorative letterbox and side lights.

The interior is furnished in the Arts and Crafts style. The vestibule has painted doors, and ornate door handles are throughout. The living room/sitting room features carved beams displaying owls, squirrels, and rabbits above the bay window; a central carved beam bears the inscription "Serve Humanity the Gods we know not" on one side and representations of a fox in vine tendrils on the other. The living room fireplace has a rounded red brick arch with hand-painted tiles, flanked by a copper panel in hammered relief depicting a landscape with a setting sun and framed in polished red pine, surmounted by a painted triptych. Panelling is also present. The staircase balusters are panelled and pierced with a heart motif. The sitting room fireplace features a Tudor arch made of red brick, accompanied by similar hand-painted tiles, and a moulded plaster panel representing dancing nymphs and piping pans above the arch, with a painted triptych.

The principal bedroom has a fireplace with hammered steel framing and raised ornament, hand-wrought, with a plaster panel representing a scene from Burne-Jones’ "The Sleeping Beauty," titled "How they all Slept," depicting sleepers at a loom, all framed in polished pine.

The property is also notable for its gateposts, ornamented with motifs in the same style, and a wooden gate inscribed with "Little Holland House" in ornamental lettering and decorated with a birdbath. The house is listed primarily due to the exceptional quality and detail of its interior fittings.