Beechfield House

Beechfield House is a large house, now functioning as a hotel, built around 1870 for Richard Keevil. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with rusticated quoins and features a Welsh slate hipped roof. It is designed in an Italianate style, with a symmetrical two-storey front that has three windows and a service wing at the rear.

The central entrance is marked by a rusticated porch topped with a segmental pediment that includes a carved tympanum. The semi-circular headed door and flanking side windows are adorned with carved keystones and pilasters with capitals. On either side of the entrance, there are triple light sash windows that are also topped with pediments featuring carved tympanums and decorative panels. The windows have semi-circular heads and keystones, separated by columns with carved capitals, and there is a string course running along the front.

The first-floor windows mirror the design of those below, with a triple light window above the porch and two-light windows on the sides, all having round arched hood moulds with terminals and keystones. The rusticated centre has a pediment above, with open pediments over the side windows. A dentile cornice adds to the decorative detail.

The left return features a four-light canted bay topped with a segmental pediment, and beneath it, there are four grouped narrow sashes with a cornice and finials. The right return includes a rusticated chimney breast and a first-floor balcony with a balustrade. The plain three-storey, three-window service wing is located at the rear.

Inside, the entrance hall has round arched openings with keys and imposts leading to the rooms, and there is a central open-well staircase. The front right room boasts moulded cornices, friezes, and a ribbed patterned ceiling. Notably, the painted glass in the windows above the porch features six oval panels depicting rural scenes, along with floral and vine-leaf motifs in the door panels and surround of the right return entrance and front door. The house was built for local gentleman farmer Richard Keevil, whose initials are carved in the pediment above the canted bay on the left.