The Retreat, Beanburn, Ayton

The Coach House at The Retreat in Beanburn, Ayton, dates back to around 1830 and has seen later additions and alterations. This symmetrical, two-storey building with a basement features three bays and has a lower two-storey wing at the rear, slightly offset to the left, creating a near T-plan layout. The front is constructed from ribbon-pointed pink sandstone rubble, while the northeast side has heavily-pointed rubble, the southwest side is harled, and the rear is finished with coursed render. The building includes narrow quoin strips, tooled sandstone quoins, and tooled long and short surrounds to the openings, along with margins and projecting cills.

The southeast entrance elevation has a glazed lean-to porch addition at the center of the ground floor and a single window aligned above it on the first floor. There are single windows at both floors in the flanking bays. The southwest side elevation shows the original block with a single window centered at the ground, while the two-storey wing is slightly recessed to the outer left. The northwest rear elevation features a projecting wing to the right with single windows on both floors, the upper window breaking the eaves, and an irregularly fenestrated range recessed to the left. On the northeast side elevation, the original block has a single window at the first floor in the outer left bay, and the lower wing is recessed to the outer right with a single window at the first floor, offset to the left of center.

The building predominantly has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with some modern glazing at the rear. It has a grey slate piended roof and brick-built wallhead stacks on the southwest and northeast sides, along with various cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The former coach house, constructed from rendered rubble, has a southeast entrance elevation featuring the original block to the left with a large, two-leaf boarded timber door at the center of the ground floor and a boarded opening aligned above. To the right, there is a full-height, single bay addition that is recessed, with a boarded timber door at the ground level. The roof is also grey slate. The interior of the coach house was not seen in 1998.

The property is enclosed by a heavily-pointed low rubble boundary wall at the front.