Beech Tree Farmhouse

Beech Tree Farmhouse is a one-and-a-half to two-storey, three-cell house, likely dating from the 17th century, with a rear outshut. The house is rendered over local rubble stone and has Welsh slate roofs. It stands on falling ground, with the two-storey section on the left. The main elevation's ground floor has a window, a door, and two more windows, although the window frames are late 20th century, their arrangement suggests largely original openings. The windows are standard two-light casements. The upper floor has a casement on the left and an eaves dormer on the right. There are gable stacks, one on the left and one centrally located in the cross-passage. The left gable is blind, while the right gable has a small window in the upper floor. The rear elevation, only partly visible, features an outshut and similar casements.

The house originally had a two-cell gable entry plan, with an addition at the entry end, downhill, to create an extra room. This addition may represent the conversion of a former agricultural building, potentially contemporary with the house, although the roof structure is demonstrably later. The gable entry leads to a large fireplace with a massive chamfered oak lintel and monolith jambs. The entrance itself has a chamfered oak surround with a shaped head, and a planted moulded door that has been reset from its original position. To the right of the entrance is a stone firestair, now out of use. The adjacent inner room is partly separated by an oak post and panel screen, which includes a doorway, although some of the screen’s panels are missing and half of the screen has been relocated to the gable wall. The ceiling of the inner room features chamfered cross beams with ogee stops, and chamfered and stopped joists, and the room itself remains unheated. The main entrance now opens into a cross passage, filled by a 20th-century staircase, but the original rear wall only has a small window. The kitchen is at a lower level and includes a plainer fireplace with an oak lintel and a mid-19th century bread oven to the right. To the left is another blocked firestair with a four-centred doorway. The kitchen ceiling has plain beams. A modern rear extension has been added. The first floor has no visible historic features. The roof is structured in three bays with principal rafters and ties, and trenched purlins; the secondary rafters are part of a full roof recovery.