Beauchamp — Dublin Road

Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey country house, built 1803, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch to ground floor; three-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Sold, 1872. "Improved", pre-1908, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1932. For sale, 2014. Interior including (ground floor): vestibule retaining encaustic tiled floor; square-headed door opening into hall with carved timber Classical-style surround framing glazed timber panelled door having oversailing overlight; hall retaining carved timber Classical-style surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, decorative plasterwork cornice to compartmentalised ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose, staircase on a dog leg plan with cast-iron balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, carved timber Classical-style surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors, and decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling roses in decorative plasterwork frames; bow-ended drawing room (west) on an L-shaped plan retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door, cut-veined grey marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; bow-ended dining room (east) on an L-shaped plan retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door, cut-limestone Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled reveals or shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds with chamfered piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates.