Beechin House

Beechin House is a former public house that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century, and may have an earlier core. The building underwent alterations in the early 18th century and early 19th century. It is timber framed, with the ground floor featuring painted brick at the front and exposed broadly-spaced studding with rendered infilling on the right gable end. The first floor is hung with plain tiles at the front and has thick bands of plain and fishscale tiles on the right gable end. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has two storeys plus a garret on a rendered plinth, with a half-hipped roof. There is a multiple brick ridge stack towards the right end, dated 170(-), and a slender projecting brick stack on the left gable end. The building has irregular fenestration, with four two-light wooden casements; three are located to the left and one to the right of the stack. The right gable end features a shallow five-light ovolo-moulded-mullioned oriel window with a moulded head, protected by a shallow plain-tiled pentice, and has a cill on a shaped bracket on each floor. There is a ribbed door under the stack and a blocked doorway that has been converted into a window under the second window from the left. To the left, there is a narrow 19th-century parallel rear range with a painted brick ground floor, a tile-hung first floor, and a gabled plain-tile roof. The interior has not been inspected. The building was formerly known as The Beech Inn.