Beechfield House
BEECHFIELD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194649
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Beechfield House
- Statutory Address:
- BEECHFIELD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194649
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Beechfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECHFIELD HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BEECHFIELD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melksham Without
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 90340 65664
Details
ST 96 NW MELKSHAM WITHOUT BEANACRE (east side)
2/175 Beechfield House
5.6.79
GV II
Large house, now hotel. Circa 1870. For Richard Keevil. Ashlar with rusticated quoins. Welsh slate hipped roof. Italianate square house with 3-windowed service wing to rear. 2- storey symmetrical 3-window front. Central rusticated porch has segmental pediment with carved tympanum. Semi-circular headed door and side windows have carved keystones and pilasters with capitals. Triple light sashes to either side have pediment with carved tympanum, over decorative panel. Windows have semi-circular heads and keystone and are separated by columns with carved capitals. String course. First floor windows similar, but with triple light over porch and 2-light to sides, all having round arched hood moulds with terminals and keystone. Rusticated centre has pediment over; open pediments to either side window. Dentile cornice. Window treatment of left and right returns similar; left return has 4-light canted bay with segmental pediment, and 4 grouped narrow sashes beneath pediment with cornice and finials, over. Right return includes rusticated chimney breast and first floor balcony with balustrade. Plain 3 storey, 3 window service wing to rear. Interior: Entrance hall has round arched openings with keys and imposts, to rooms. Central open-well stair. Moulded cornices and friezes and ribbed patterned ceiling to front right room. Particularly notable is painted glass in windows above porch, comprising 6 oval panels depicting rural scenes, and in door panels and surround of right return entrance and front door, of floral and vine-leaf motifs. House built for a local gentleman farmer, Richard Keevil whose initials are carved in the pediment over the canted bay to left. (Kelly's Directory 1872).
Listing NGR: ST9034265665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314392
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1872)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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