Beech House

Beech House is a 17th-century house, altered in 1725 and later, located in Market Lavington and set back from the road. It is a building of group value. Constructed of rendered stonework with a tiled roof, the house has two storeys at the front and 1½ storeys at the rear, and includes a cellar and attics. The plan and floor levels have been significantly altered since the 17th century. The front features a central six-panelled door within a wide portico. The windows are 18th-century, two-centred arched timber windows with Y tracery and intersecting leading; the right bay has sixteen-paned sashes. An external stack has been added to the front of the second bay, straddling a window. A staircase is situated in a front projection on the left end of the house. A single hipped dormer is present. The rear elevation has been partly raised to two storeys and incorporates one flat-roofed dormer. The interior displays a stair hall with a split stair dating to the early 19th century, a raised first floor, and a lowered ground floor in the right bay above a cellar.