Beauchamp House

DONHEAD ST. ANDREW ST. BARTHOLOMEWS STREET ST 92 NW (east side)

4/12 Beauchamp House

GV II

Wrongly shown on O.S. map as Hill House. Rectory, now private house. 1892 by C.E. Ponting, paid for by H. Chapman of Donhead House (q.v.). Flemish bond brick with limestone dressings, tiled hipped roof, brick stacks with stone cappings. Two-storey, 5-window entrance front. Gabled porch with round-arched opening and coped verge with kneelers, 4-light mullioned and transomed window to right, single and 2-light mullioned casements to left. First floor with string course, two 2-light, 3-light mullioned casements and single chamfered light with gabled projection to left with 5-light mullioned casements. Segmental-headed dormer to attic. Right return has 2-storey polygonal bay with mullioned and transomed casements to left, 3- light mullioned and transomed casement to right with 2-light to first floor, segmental-headed attic dormer. Rear has half-glazed door with large stone shell hood, large square bay to left and various mullioned casements with large 6-light mullioned and transomed casement lighting stairs, three gabled dormers with 3- light mullioned casements. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Interior retains original joinery; 4-panelled doors in moulded architraves, eared architraves to ground floor, good stairs with splat balusters and square newels. Occupies a prominent position overlooking the Nadder Valley. Ceased to be the rectory during 1950s. (Diocesan Records)

Listing NGR: ST9125725282