The Beeches

The Beeches is a house dating from the 1850s. It is constructed of stuccoed walls with a hipped roof covered in grouted scantle slate, featuring projecting eaves and brick chimneys over the side walls. Cast-iron ogee gutters are also present. The building has an irregular ‘L’ shaped plan, comprising two reception rooms facing the garden, an axial entrance hall leading to a stair hall, a single-room plan wing with a pedimented gable projecting on the left (behind a later 19th-century entrance porch), a deep service wing at right angles to the rear, and a large, later 19th-century conservatory on the right of the garden front.

The architectural style is Classical. The north-facing garden front is symmetrical with three windows, featuring a plinth, clasping two-tier corner pilasters (fluted to the lower half of the first tier), moulded architraves to the ground floor openings with moulded hoods (segmental pediment over the central window), and a first floor sill band with brackets and eared architraves over the windows. The original windows are 12-pane hornless sashes. A fine 19th-century conservatory stands to the right of the garden front, featuring a central canted bay with transomed lights containing 16-pane fixed lights, and overlights with coloured glass. A full-length lantern ridge with coloured glass sides tops the conservatory roof.

The east-facing entrance front has a recessed entrance with brackets resembling machicolations above. The original panelled door is accompanied by an overlight. A 19th-century entrance porch stands in front of the doorway; this porch has panelled sides and transomed lights. To the left of the entrance is a two-storey pedimented gable end with a plinth and strings forming a simple ground floor classical order, a more complex first floor order, and a pediment with round-arched details to the middle and returning as a parapet cornice on either side. Contemporary windows are present, likely replacing previously altered openings. The interior of the house was not inspected.