Beech Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1974. House.

Beech Hill House

WRENN ID
western-finial-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 April 1974
Type
House
Address
Beech Hill House, Usk
OS grid reference
SO 373 018
Coordinates
51.7115, -2.90796
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Beech Hill House is a small country house built of fine jointed ashlar, featuring a shallow-pitched slate roof behind a parapet with shallow coping and long narrow rendered ridge stacks. The house has two storeys and a three-window range of 12-pane sashes set in reveals, with wide block voussoirs above the first floor. The ground floor displays wider tri-partite sashes, which include metal mullions on either side of a central flat-roofed porch. This porch is supported by four slender Doric columns that hold up an entablature with a Lombard frieze, and there are attached columns at the rear. The entrance features double part-glazed doors with a fanlight and is set on a stepped plinth. The west side is stucco-rendered, with stone quoins exposed, and has a two-window range of similar sashes separated by a painted downpipe from a hopper. The east side mirrors this, with a single window range of tripartite sashes on each floor. High stone walls from a former walled garden are attached to each side of the house.

Inside, the house retains panelled shutters and doors, a staircase with a wreathed handrail and stick balusters, simple plaster mouldings, and one painted fireplace. However, the interior was mostly reordered in the mid-20th century.

Local climate

Beech Hill House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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