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Beechwood House may refer to: * Beechwood House, Highgate, London, England * Beechwood House, Newport, Wales * Beechwood House, Edinburgh, Scotland, former home of Alexander Asher Alexander Asher (27 January 1834 – 5 August 1905) was a Scottish politician and lawyer, who was elected as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for the Elgin Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), Elgin Burghs constituency ...
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Beechwood House, Highgate
Beechwood House is a Grade II listed large detached house set in of grounds on Hampstead Lane in Highgate, North West London, N6. It was built in 1840 in the grounds of the former Fitzroy House by the architect and developer George Basevi for his brother Nathaniel, a barrister. It has been owned by several prominent personalities including politicians Lewis McIver and Oswald Lewis, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia, and the Qatari sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. It is owned by trusts linked to the Uzbek businessman Alisher Usmanov. Design The ''London: North'' edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides describes Beechwood as "An uneventful two-storeyed stucco house, with two canted bays on the garden side, altered and added to". The 2010 edition of ''The London Encyclopaedia'' described the interior as remodeled in an "early Georgian style" by W. B. Simpson of Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie. The grounds of Beechwood are in size, situated in Metropolitan Open Land and contain se ...
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Beechwood House, Newport
Beechwood Park is a thirty-acre public park situated in the eastern Beechwood area of the city of Newport, South Wales. The park is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. History Beechwood House was built in 1877-78 as a private residence by George Fothergill, a former Mayor of Newport. It was designed in a classical style using Bath stone, by architects Habershon, Pite & Fawckner. In 1900 the Beechwood estate was purchased by Newport Corporation and opened as a public park. During World War II the park was used by US military personnel stationed in the city and was later used as a tuberculosis clinic, model railway club, and open air school. Community The Park is protected by a group of local volunteers in the Beechwood Park Group, who set up in 2014 with the purpose of organising events for local people and improving the facilities available to visitors, including raising £1,850 for new parasols for outdoor sea ...
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Beechwood House, Edinburgh
Beechwood may refer to: Plants * Beechwood, the wood from any of ten species of beech trees * Malay beechwood, tree ''Gmelina arborea'', and its wood * Willow beechwood ''Faurea saligna'', and its wood Places Canada * Beechwood, Ontario United Kingdom * Beechwood, Runcorn, Cheshire, England * Beechwood, Merseyside, England ** Beechwood railway station * Beechwood, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England * Beechwood, West Yorkshire, a location in England * Beechwood, West Midlands, a location in England * Beechwood, Highland, a location in Scotland * Beechwood, Newport, Wales United States * Beechwood, Indiana * Beechwood, Michigan, in Ottawa County * Beechwood, Iron County, Michigan * Beechwood, Mississippi * Beachwood, Ohio, formerly Beechwood * Beechwood, Wood County, West Virginia * Beechwood, Wyoming County, West Virginia * Beechwood, Wisconsin Buildings United States * Beechwood (Astor mansion), Newport, Rhode Island * Beechwood (Isaac Kinsey House ...
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