Beechwood House, attached forecourt wall and attached coach-house range is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1993. Mansion. 2 related planning applications.
Beechwood House, attached forecourt wall and attached coach-house range
- WRENN ID
- burning-hall-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1993
- Type
- Mansion
- OS grid reference
- ST 332 886
- Coordinates
- 51.59262, -2.96479
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Beechwood House is a small mansion built in the 18th century in a simple Italianate Classical style. It is constructed from ashlar Bath-stone with rusticated dressings and some rendered areas, and has a hipped Welsh slate roof that has suffered fire damage. It features tall chimney stacks with dentilled cornices and recessed panels, and wide eaves with deep, moulded brackets grouped around the corners and a dentilled cornice. The windows are horned sash windows, now boarded up. The building has a roughly U-shaped plan with a main frontage and two long rear cross wings.
The symmetrical design of the south front is three bays wide, with two windows above a central entrance flanked by splayed two-storeyed bays. A deep band course runs between the floors, as do a first-floor impost band and sill band, and a plinth. The first-floor windows have segmental heads with keystones, while the ground-floor windows are square-headed with voussoirs and keystones. A grand, flat-roofed porch with an entablature, parapet, paired Corinthian columns, and steps leading to the entrance is attached to the front.
A low stone forecourt wall extends around the returns, featuring iron railings, piers, and one surviving stone urn. The long east side of the house features two windows, then a splayed bay, and a five-window range. The west side is rendered and has a nine-window first-floor range and irregular ground-floor openings. At the centre rear, two round-headed staircase windows are located between the cross wings. The wing to the east has a hipped roof, while the wing to the west is longer and wider with a flatter roof pitch.
Attached to the west side is a high brick wall extending to incorporate a two-storey, part-rendered, hipped-roofed coach house and a single-storey ancillary range, plus lean-tos. The coach house has cambered-headed openings and a round-headed gabled loft opening above a carriage entrance.
The interior is reported to retain a wide and deep central hall with dentilled cornices, an elaborate patterned tiled floor, and an open-well stone staircase with ironwork balusters rising to triple arcades linking to the first-floor corridors. There are foliage plasterwork borders to the ceilings, and the original doors feature six panels with raised fields and panelled soffits, alongside high skirtings. Ground-floor chimneypieces were removed before 1991.
Local climate
Beechwood House, attached forecourt wall and attached coach-house range receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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