Beechwood House

Beechwood House is a country house set in a small landscaped park, reputedly built in 1780 and remodeled around 1850. It is constructed of stuccoed stone rubble and features slate roofs. The building has an asymmetrical design, although the original plan was likely more regular. It has a plain parapet with a band, a band at the first-floor level, and a plain plinth. The house is two storeys high.

The west entrance front is asymmetrical, projecting at the center and right, with a central mid-19th century solid porch that has large corner piers, a cornice, and a balustrade. The south front consists of five bays, with the left side projecting and featuring a mid-19th century two-storey bay that has a bracketed cornice over ground floor tripartite sash windows. The east side has a 2:3:2 bay arrangement, highlighted by a large central mid-19th century square bay with a balustrade and a three-light window above with round arches. The east front extends to the right (north) with four bays that contain 18th and 19th century sashes; the north wing has a cupola and 19th century dormers. Some of the 18th and 19th century sashes remain, with some retaining their glazing bars, while others have been remodeled in the 19th century with moulded architraves and plate glass. There are service wings to the north and plain rendered chimneystacks.

Inside, the layout is arranged around a central hall featuring a contemporary staircase, with some original joinery still intact. The drawing room in the southwest has a distinctive white marble chimneypiece, reportedly from a house in Ireland, adorned with two caryatids resembling African goddesses that support a moulded shelf above a frieze carved in relief depicting Europa and the Bull, along with other animal subjects. Two additional ground floor rooms feature wallpaper designed by Walter Crane. The novelist Charlotte M. Yonge is said to have frequently visited Beechwood House and wrote much of her work there.