Beauchamp House Nursing Home Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1955. Nursing home. 3 related planning applications.
Beauchamp House Nursing Home Limited
- WRENN ID
- blind-keep-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1955
- Type
- Nursing home
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beauchamp House Nursing Home Limited is a house that has been converted into a nursing home, dating from the late 18th century. The building features roughcast over rubble with hipped slate roofs behind a parapet, and it has brick stacks. The layout consists of a double pile with a service wing set at an angle to the east.
The entrance front is two storeys high and has three bays, with the centre bay slightly projecting forward. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows that rest on a flat string course band. The ground floor features tall 5 x 3-pane sash windows flanking a central arched recessed entrance. This entrance has a string course and a pedimented York stone Corinthian column doorcase, with renewed 6-panel double doors and a fanlight. It is approached by a flight of five sandstone steps, with a concrete ramp attached to the left window and a 20th-century wrought iron balcony.
The garden front, facing north, is also two storeys and has three bays, with a central semicircular bay that rises to three storeys and has a lead pyramid roof. This central bay contains three 6-pane sash windows, while the first floor has five 12-pane sash windows. The ground floor features a left single-storey semi-circular bay with three 15-pane sash windows, and the central bay has 20th-century French windows approached by a flight of eight steps, flanked by 15-pane sash windows with wrought iron balconies. To the right is a single 15-pane sash window with a balcony.
Inside, there is a stick stair with a cut string, late 18th-century plaster cornices, and two Adam-style chimney pieces on the garden front. In the 19th century, the house was home to the Raban family, some of whom are buried in St John's Church. Mark Girouard has suggested that this was the house built by Henry Powell of Hatch Court, known as Belmont, although the 1832 Greenwood map indicates that Belmont was located to the northeast of Hatch Court.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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