Beel House

Beel House is a small country house, dating to the later 18th century with earlier origins, situated within a park. The house is rendered with colourwash, topped by a hipped roof covered in old tiles with a modern dormer. A parapet is present to the front, adorned with four pineapple finials. The house is two storeys high and has an attic. Features include a first-floor band, quoins to the front elevation, five sash windows, and a central, one-window projecting bay with a Roman Doric porch and two-fold doors set in panelled reveals. The return elevation on the right displays a three-storey semi-circular bow with modified Doric pilasters, frieze, and cornice to the ground floor. To the left is a two-storey canted bay with a first-floor cast iron balcony. An 18th-century service wing has been partly demolished. An early 19th-century conservatory with Doric columns stands on the south-west side. A one-storey outbuilding, with a canted end and a hipped old tile roof, is located on the south-east. Inside, a staircase from the 18th century exhibits turned balusters, fluted newel posts, and carved tread ends. The drawing room has Ionic pilasters defining the reveals of the canted bay window, along with a fireplace featuring reeded half-columns. A first-floor room retains early 18th-century panelling and a box cornice. A ground-floor rear room preserves a 17th-century stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops and associated joists.