Grovewood House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Residential home. 1 related planning application.
Grovewood House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-loft-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Residential home
- Address
- Grovewood House, Eglingham, NE66 2NB
- OS grid reference
- NU 165 202
- Coordinates
- 55.47542, -1.74051
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grovewood House is a vicarage, now serving as an old people's residential home, built in 1862 by James Deason of London for the 4th Duke of Northumberland. The building is constructed of snecked stone with tooled ashlar dressings and features a grey Lakeland slate roof, designed in the Tudor style.
The east elevation has two storeys divided into two sections. It includes a chamfered plinth and a projecting left bay with a gable, a smaller gablet on the right, and a pent-roofed projection on the far right. The right-of-centre features a studded door with foliate hinges, a 2-light transomed window, and a dated panel displaying the Percy arms beneath a cornice at the first-floor level. The right part has three bays, with a tall transomed 2-light stair window on the left, additional 2-light windows, and a tall stepped lateral stack with chamfered angles and a cap to the shaft; a similar stack is located on the ridge. The left return has two bays, while the rear elevation has three bays showing 2- and 3-light windows, with the ground-floor windows being transomed and some first-floor windows set in gabled half dormers. There is a corbelled-out stack on the gabled right bay of the rear elevation, and the lower part of the left bays is obscured by a late 20th-century extension. All openings have recessed and chamfered surrounds; the ground-floor windows are mostly casements, while others are plain sashes. The gables are coped on moulded kneelers.
The twin-gabled right return features a studded door flanked by 12-pane sash windows. Inside, there are 4-panel doors, folding panelled shutters, a dogleg closed-string stair with stop-chamfered balusters, and newels with moulded finials and pendants.
Late 20th-century extensions to the west are not of special interest.
Local climate
Grovewood House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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