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Beech House and Flanking Walls to South and East

A Grade II Listed Building in Swainswick, Bath and North East Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4138 / 51°24'49"N

Longitude: -2.347 / 2°20'49"W

OS Eastings: 375965

OS Northings: 168371

OS Grid: ST759683

Mapcode National: GBR 0Q4.7GV

Mapcode Global: VH96F.8QLJ

Plus Code: 9C3VCM73+G6

Entry Name: Beech House and Flanking Walls to South and East

Listing Date: 1 February 1956

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1276988

English Heritage Legacy ID: 408066

ID on this website: 101276988

Location: Upper Swainswick, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA1

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Civil Parish: Swainswick

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


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

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