Beckford is a historic home located at

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, Somerset County,

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. It is a late Georgian

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brick dwelling, five bays wide by three bays deep, two stories with a hipped roof and two large interior chimney stacks. It is situated on the crest of the slope rising from the eastern bank of the

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. Beckford was listed on the

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in 1974.

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