Beechwood House, attached forecourt wall and attached coach-house range

Small mansion in simple Italianate Classical style. Built of ashlar Bath-stone, with rusticated dressings and partly rendered; hipped Welsh slate roof, now fire-damaged; tall stacks with dentilled cornices and recessed panels; wide eaves with deep moulded brackets which are grouped round angles and dentilled cornice. Horned sashes, now boarded up. Roughly U-shaped plan of main frontage and two long rear cross wings. Symmetrical design to 3-bay front (S side) with two windows over central entrance flanked by splayed 2-storeyed bays; deep band course between floors together with first floor impost band and sill band; plinth. Segmental-headed first floor windows with keystones and square-headed ground floor windows with voussoirs and keystones. Grand flat-roofed porch with entablature, parapet, paired Corinthian columns and steps up to entrance. Attached to porch is the low stone forecourt wall, extending round returns, with iron railings, piers and one surviving stone urn. Long right (E) side has, from left, 2 windows, then a splayed bay, then a 5-window range. Left (W) side is rendered, a 9-window first floor range and irregular ground floor openings. At centre rear are two round-headed staircase windows between the cross wings; wing to E has hipped roof; that to W is longer and wider with a correspondingly flatter roof pitch. Attached to left (W) is a high mostly brick wall extending to incorporate a 2-storey hipped roofed part-rendered coach house and single storey ancillary range, plus lean-tos; the house has boarded-up cambered headed openings with at front a round-headed gabled loft opening above a carriage entrance.

Interior reported to retain wide and deep central hall with dentilled cornices, elaborate patterned tiled floor and open well stone staircase; ironwork balusters rising to triple arcades linking to first floor corridors. Throughout, foliage plasterwork borders to ceilings, Doors were 6-panelled with raised fields and panelled soffits, high skirtings. Ground floor chimneypieces removed before 1991.