37 Beeleigh Road (EHER 38247)

An unusual timber framed house with blue weatherboarding and a hipped corrugated-zinc roof with wide roof overhang and glazed clerestory. It was built in 1906 by a local ironmonger in 'Colonial Style', apparently to please his wife from New Zealand. It is a single storey structure with a basement under the north-east (front) elevation which is perched over the bank of the so-called Saxon Burgh (see EHER 7766). Internally there is a large central 'living hall' with a low cantilevered balcony on two sides which gives access to cupboards in the roof space.

October 1994. Grade II listed. A timber framed house with black weatherboarding and a hipped corrugated-zinc roof with wide roof overhang. Atop the roof is a continuously glazed clerestory with further hipped zinc roof. It was built in 1906 by a local ironmonger in 'Colonial Style', apparently to please his wife from New Zealand. It is a single storey structure with a basement under the north-east (front) elevation which is perched over the bank of the so-called Saxon Burgh (see EHER 7766). The front elevation has a flight of open timber steps up to the front door, which has pilasters, possibly reused. There are many irregularly spaced windows. A window on the north-east corner of the front is V-canted under wide eaves. The rear garden elevation has a wide door opening with pilasters and three folding panelled hardwood leaves. Internally there is a large central 'living hall' with panelled walls and a low cantilevered balcony on two sides giving access to cupboards in the roof space. The hall has a grand and elaborate fireplace in embossed steel with inverted pyramidal brackets and pierced shelves, of an advanced Arts and Crafts style. A variety of other fire surrounds are retained within the building including, in a front room, a stained timber surround with double mantel-shelf, cupboard with tiny glazed panes, glazed coloured tiles in flanks and brass smoke deflector. <1> See photo <2>. Google Streetview imagery from May 2023 and April 2024 shows the weatherboarding on the exterior of the building has been repainted in a pale blue colour. Prior to this, imagery from April 2009 and November 2010 shows the weatherboarding painted white. <3>