Beaulieu Lodge

Beaulieu Lodge is a house dating back to around 1760, with an addition from the 19th century and later 20th-century alterations. The south front is built of limestone ashlar, while the rest of the building is constructed from coursed rubblestone. It features a double-pitched slate roof with moulded stacks at the gable ends and along the ridge. The house has a double-depth plan and a two-story west wing added around 1840.

The main facade is symmetrical, with seven windows. The rear range is two stories high, while the garden front is three stories and includes a stepped, full-height canted bay in the centre. Six/six-pane sash windows are present throughout, with plate glass sashes in raised surrounds on the ground floor of the bay. Lower ground floor windows are paired pointed-arched windows with intersecting leaded tracery in iron frames.

Inside, the doors have moulded architraves, and the staircase along the rear wall retains its original wreathed mahogany rail and restored turned balusters.

The house, formerly known as Beaulieu House, was likely built around 1772, with possible links to John Zephaniah Holwell, an East India Company servant known for his account of the Black Hole disaster, or to the playwright Richard Tickell. The site was referred to as “Beaulieu and Pleasure Gardens” on the 1846 Tithe Map for Weston. Alexander Hill Gray, a local traveller and gardener, purchased the property in 1885 and made further improvements to the gardens, as recorded in 1899 and 1925.