Beech House

Beech House is a house dating from 1698, built of lias ashlar with a slate roof. It has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, featuring a symmetrical seven-window range. The central entrance has a six-panelled door beneath a fanlight with roundels, surrounded by a moulded stone frame with a keystone. The windows are two-light casements with moulded stone surrounds and keystones, with a single light window flanking the entrance and above it. The house has ashlar quoins and a string course, a moulded stone cornice, and ashlar gable parapets with kneelers. There are stone and brick stacks at both ends. The left gable displays a datestone inscribed EGA/1698. There are 19th and 20th-century extensions at the rear. Inside, there is a fine central staircase with quarter landings and turned balusters. The ground-floor rooms on either side of the entrance feature fireplaces with bolection moulded surrounds, while the kitchen at the rear has an open fireplace with a bressumer supported by later corbelled brackets. A first-floor room to the left contains a fireplace decorated with Delft tiles. The roof structure is a trenched pulin type.