Azalea Court Grove House

Grove House and Azalea Court, formerly a single house, are now two separate dwellings. The house was built in 1826 for Joseph Annandale, a paper manufacturer. It is constructed of pinkish sandstone ashlar to the front, with yellow sandstone rubble to the other elevations, and has a thick, graduated dark grey slate roof, with a rear wing re-roofed in Welsh slate. The house is arranged in an L-shape.

The south garden front is two storeys and five bays. The front door consists of six panels over three vertical beaded panels, with a patterned fanlight in a Tuscan surround, supported by block capitals and topped with an open pediment. There are 16-pane sash windows with fine glazing bars and projecting stone sills. Giant corner pilasters support an eaves band, panelled above the pilasters, and a gutter cornice that breaks forward over the pilasters. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, with no chimneys visible.

The right return is two storeys and one bay, featuring a semicircular bowed projection on the ground floor with a curved French window under the gutter cornice and blocking course. A sash window is above. A set-back rear wing has a round-headed stair window. The left return is two storeys and three bays, with a similar ground-floor projection containing a curved sash window. A set-back rear wing, two storeys high, has six ground-floor windows, three first-floor windows, and a right round-headed stair window. All windows have glazing bars, with intersecting glazing bars to the staircase windows; returns of the main block have tooled surrounds, while the rear wing has flat lintels and projecting sills.

An extruded rear porch has a 20th century six-panelled door and a sash window with glazing bars. The interior features a narrow, open-well staircase with a rounded handrail on slender stick balusters, a wreath and curtail. The left ground-floor room has a moulded stucco cornice and a chimney-piece with ribbon and foliage decoration. The right room has moulded stucco wall panels, a cornice with vine decoration, and a wooden chimney-piece with paired Ionic pilasters and green and white Wedgwood corner medallions. Six-panel doors, fluted architraves with block corners, and panelled window shutters are found throughout.