Beechwood, High Street, Gifford

Beechwood is an early 18th century house that has undergone many later alterations. It is a long, two-storey building, originally part of a pair with Ystrad House. The exterior is finished in harled and painted rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings and chamfered arrises.

The west elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a full-height stairwell with a piend roof that was added early on. This stairwell projects off-centre to the right and includes a small stair window and ball finials at the angles, along with a decorative pheasant weathervane. There is a low door located by the re-entrant angle on the south return. To the left of the stairwell, there are windows flanking it, with another window that has been blocked from a former door at ground level to the left. Both floors have windows in the outer bays, which feature a 12-pane glazing pattern, primarily in sash and case windows. The roof has a coped stone end stack and a wallhead stack at the rear, with ashlar coped skews and grey slates covering the pitched roof.

The property is also accompanied by rubble coped rubble garden walls to the south, which are attached to the house and include quadrants and pyramidally coped rubble piers. There is a rigg wall to the east.