Beaufort House And Attached Walls

This is a house, built around 1800, with additions from the mid-19th century and alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a double-pitched slate roof, featuring moulded stacks to the gable ends. The house has a three-unit layout, including a single-storey wing on the right and a single-storey wing added in the 20th century on the left. The front façade is two storeys high and symmetrical, with seven windows. It features a good balustraded parapet, cornice, frieze, and a ground floor platband that follows the contours of the large, full-height segmental bays framing the windows. A single-storey, projecting porch was added in the mid-19th century, incorporating a cornice, blocking course, recessed chamfered corners, a semi-elliptical fanlight with curved glazing bars forming an inverted fan, half-glazed double doors, and semicircular arched windows to the returns. The mid-19th century windows are plate glass sashes with sunblind hoods, and two/two-pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars to the ground floor. The interior of the house has not been inspected. The grounds are enclosed by an approximately 2-metre-high ashlar wall, with sections of spearhead railings at the top. The wall features tall piers with recessed semicircular panels on each facet, cornices, and small Saonian caps, particularly noticeable on the west end. Pairs of piers flank a set-back 20th-century gate, with curved walls extending to the street. The wall extends approximately 10 metres to the west and 10 metres to the east of the gates. To the east, the wall rises to approximately 3 metres high for a further 20 metres, culminating in a semicircular arch with a raised keystone and imposts, with restored 19th-century wrought iron infill over a two-panelled door close to the right wing.