Beech House and Flanking Walls to South and East
BEECH HOUSE AND FLANKING WALLS TO SOUTH AND EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276988
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House and Flanking Walls to South and East
- Statutory Address:
- BEECH HOUSE AND FLANKING WALLS TO SOUTH AND EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276988
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House and Flanking Walls to South and East
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECH HOUSE AND FLANKING WALLS TO SOUTH AND EAST
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:
- BEECH HOUSE AND FLANKING WALLS TO SOUTH AND EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swainswick
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75965 68371
Details
ST 76 NE SWAINSWICK UPPER SWAINSWICK
5/233 Beech House and flanking Walls to south and east 1.2.56 II G.V.
Detached house. Probably C17, remodelled early - mid C18; altered c.1800 and mid C19. The centre part is rendered with French pilasters and freestone dressings; the central bay and the C19 projecting bay to the right are both ashlar; the left wing is ashlar on a rubble base and both parts have slate roofs with coped raised verges and ashlar stacks. The centre has a coved cornice and is of 2 storeys with attics in 5 dormers. 5 bays with moulded string courses over the ground and first floors: glazing bar sash windows, thick bars on the ground floor, in edge moulded surrounds with keystones. The right two bays are advanced in a C19, 2 storey bay window. The central bay is slightly advanced as a 2 storey porch, surmounted by a pediment; rusticated ground floor with central panelled and glazed door under a fanlight and a central round-headed window on the first floor, both with keystones and flanked by round-headed niches. The left wing is of 3 storeys and 2 bays: glazing bar sash windows (thick bars on the ground floor) with a moulded string course over. Interior: open well staircase with open string and turned and twisted balusters; the drawing room has raised and fielded panelling and a dentilled cornice. Garden walls extend to the south (approximately 6-8 feet high and 15 yards long) and to the east (approximately 8-10 feet high and 15 yards long): rubble with a moulded ashlar cornice; square ashlar gatepiers with moulded caps to centre of south wall.
Listing NGR: ST7596568371
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408066
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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