Beaumont Rectory (EHER 34331)

Beaumont Rectory house was built around 1800 in red brick in Flemish bond, and roofed with old grey slate. The estate was acquired by Guy's Hospital around 1760, the house is reported to have been a rectory from around 1850 to around 1955.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import. Beaumont Rectory house was built around 1800 in red brick in Flemish bond, and roofed with old grey slate. It has a double-pile plan facing east, with two internal stacks symmetrically arranged, and one at rear left. It is two storeys with attics. There is a central half-glazed door and overflight with marginal lights and panelled reveals, it has a Greek Doric portico with triglyph frieze and four stone steps. There is a moulded stone cornice above first-floor windows, plain parapet with stone coping. It has hipped mansard roofs. The building has original lead rainwater heads and pipes. The rear elevation has a 3-window range of original sashes, two similar attic windows, and an off-centre six-panel flush door with overlight, panelled jambs and soffit, dentilled and moulded flat canopy, and six stone steps with wrought iron handrails, all original. The walls connected with the house extend backwards from each rear corner for approximately five metres, each with one semi-circular recessed arch of gauged brick. The interior has the original three-flight geometrical stair with scrolled tread ends, wreathed handrail and stick balusters, doors, architraves, skirtings, and folding shutters. <1> <2> <3> The estate was acquired by Guy's Hospital around 1760, the house is reported to have been a rectory from around 1850 to around 1955. <4>