Beech Farmhouse

Beech Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, with a facade added in the late 18th or early 19th century, and further additions made around 1864. It is timber framed, featuring a ground floor with chequered red and grey brick on the main range, buff brick on the left wing and right end, and tile-hung on the first floor. The roof is covered with plain tiles and follows a lobby entry plan.

The building has a flush cross-wing from circa 1864 on the left and a single bay of similar date on the right end. It is two storeys high, with a 19th-century gable-end jetty on the right. The left cross-wing has gables at both the front and rear. The main range roof is hipped to the right, and there are various stacks: a rear gable end stack on the left wing, a ridge stack to the left of the main range's centre, and two slender projecting rear stacks on the right.

The fenestration is irregular, consisting of five windows: one 16-pane sash on the left wing, one three-light casement to the left of the stack, one two-light casement beneath the stack, and one three-light and one two-light casement on the right. There is a blocked doorway under the stack and a ribbed door in a gabled brick porch at the left end of the main range. A shallow circular niche, possibly for a clock face, is present on the gable of the 19th-century wing.

Inside, the farmhouse features exposed framing, with chamfered beams and gunstock-jowled posts. There is a plain brick fireplace in English bond with a chamfered bresumer on the left, and a blocked fireplace on the first floor above. The stairs are located behind the stack, and the roof has a 19th-century clasped-purlin structure.