The Beeches

The Beeches is a villa, now used as offices, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof in the Gothick style.

The building has two storeys and three bays, with a lower hipped-roof wing at the rear left corner. The front is symmetrical with a slight central projection and large quoins. It has a six-panel double door with a fanlight that has intersecting tracery, all set within a pointed-arched surround with a hoodmould. The outer bays and first floor feature projecting stone sills beneath sash windows that have intersecting glazing bars, also in pointed-arched surrounds with hoodmoulds. The eaves project on pairs of shaped wooden brackets. The hipped roof has end stacks with diagonally-set flues and cornices, although the right end stack is truncated.

Inside, the entrance hall showcases reeded architraves with roundels. The original staircase features square rods leading to a wreathed mahogany handrail. In the front left room, there is fascia framing around plaster wall panels with paterae, a frieze decorated with husk garlands and Neo-classical female figures, and additional husk garlanding on the ceiling. The house is surrounded by a raised ashlar pavement.