TQ 74 SW MARDEN BEECH ROAD (north side) 3/23 Beechin House GV II Formerly public house, now house. Late C16 or early C17, possibly with earlier core. Early C18 and early C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick to front, exposed broadly-spaced studding with rendered infilling to right gable end. First floor hung with plain tiles to front, thick bands of plain and fishscale tiles to right gable end. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and garret on rendered plinth. Half-hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack towards right end dated 170(-). Slender projecting brick stack to left gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 two-light wooden casements; three to left and one to right of stack. Right gable end has one shallow five-light ovolo-moulded-mullioned oriel window with moulded head protected by shallow plain-tiled pentice, and with cill on shaped bracket, to each floor. Ribbed door under stack. Blocked doorway, now window, under second window from left. Narrow C19 parallel rear range to left with painted brick ground floor, tile- hung first floor and gabled plain-tile roof. Interior not inspected. Formerly The Beech Inn. Listing NGR: TQ7341643145