Beech House, 1 Main Street, Swinton

Beech House is a later 19th-century building that has undergone some additions and alterations. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, originally serving as a policeman's house, and features a single-storey, two-bay former police station attached to the right. There is a flat-roofed addition that is recessed to the outer right, along with a single-storey, piended wing at the rear. The exterior is made of squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone with droved sandstone dressings and timber bargeboards. The building has narrow strip quoins, stop-chamfered surrounds to the openings, and flush cills.

On the southeast (entrance) elevation, the original house has a timber panelled door located in the bay to the right, accompanied by a three-pane fanlight. There is a single window in the bay to the left and another window centered at the first floor, which features a gablehead with a king-post and tie beam, topped by a chimney stack. The former police station is slightly recessed to the right and has a boarded timber door in the bay to the right, decorated with iron hinges, along with a letterbox fanlight and an architraved surround to a rectangular panel above (the sign is missing). There is also a single window in the bay to the left and a bipartite window in the flat-roofed addition recessed to the outer right.

The building predominantly features 8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with some modern skylights. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have pitched and piended designs, along with cast iron rainwater goods. There are corniced brick ridge and apex stacks, with various octagonal cans.

Inside, there is a boarded and studded timber cell door with original brass and iron fittings and a sandstone surround; the remainder of the interior was not seen in 1998.

The boundary walls consist of a low coped sandstone wall enclosing the site, with iron railings and a taller rubble wall at the rear. Square-plan droved sandstone piers flank the vehicular entrance (gates are missing), and there is a single pier on Duns Road, all topped with pyramidal caps. Additionally, square-plan droved sandstone gatepiers flank the pedestrian entrance, also with pyramidal caps, and there is an iron gate featuring fleur de lys finials.