Beanacre Manor With Dairy

Beanacre Manor with attached dairy is a large house dating from around 1595-1600, with a late 17th-century dairy and a late 18th-century flower room added. The house is constructed of rubble stone with an ashlar porch, and has a stone slate roof with saddle-backed coping, and paired ashlar stacks. The plan is E-shaped, with projecting gables added shortly after the central part of the house was built, and twin gabled stair turrets projecting to the rear.

The front facade is symmetrical, with five windows on each floor. A central, projecting, gabled two-storey porch features a Renaissance door surround and a three-light hollow-chamfered mullion window above. To either side of the porch are four-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with drip moulds. The projecting wings on either side have four-light mullioned windows with king mullions and drip moulds to both the ground and first floors, with relieving arches above. A two-light mullioned window with a drip mould is located in each attic gable. The first floor of the central range has a three-light mullioned window on either side of the porch, and two-light mullioned windows to the returns of the porch and gables. The rear elevation mirrors the wings on the sides, which partly cut twin three-storeyed stair turrets, possessing single-light and two-light mullioned windows above. To the right of the central range is a single-unit flower room constructed of Bath stone, dating from the late 18th century. A 20th-century four-light mullioned window illuminates the hall to the left. Two dormers have been inserted into the attic.

Inside, the stone-flagged entrance hall features an early 18th-century bolection moulded fireplace. The dining room in the left wing has mid-18th-century panelling, reportedly from Corsham Court. The house contains 17th-century doors, one with a carved entablature featuring Corinthian columns and carved heads to the frieze. A large stone fireplace has naive carvings of fishes and animals, along with moulded panels and a cornice. The parlour in the right wing has a large fireplace with an interlaced arcading motif to the frieze and fluted columns on either side. The late 18th-century flower room has a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The rear of the house features twin spiral staircases with solid oak winders and a continuous newel in two sections. Bedrooms contain bolection moulded fireplaces.

The attached late 17th-century dairy, to the rear left, is constructed of rubble stone with a stone slate roof. It is single-storey with an attic, possessing a three-light ovolo-mullioned window on the ground floor and a two-light window above, both with drip moulds. The interior is open to the roof and was originally separate from the main house, but is now connected by an early 20th-century wing.