The Grove (Church Army Home For The Elderly)

The Grove, formerly known as Ryton Grove, is a large house that now serves as a home for the elderly. It was built in 1742, as indicated by the date on the rainwater heads, with early 20th-century additions featuring round bows on the returns. The building is constructed of brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins, topped with a graduated Westmorland slate roof that has two tall corniced brick chimneys. It is two storeys high with attics and features five windows across the front.

The entrance consists of a partly-glazed door beneath an ornamental fanlight, set within a Tuscan doorcase that has fluted necking and an open pediment. This is located in a central half-octagonal projection, which has windows above the door and in the canted returns, with one window on either side. All the windows are sashes with glazing bars, projecting stone sills, and splayed stone lintels with false voussoirs. The round bows in the returns have flat stone lintels styled similarly. The building features a first-floor string course and a dentilled eaves cornice. There are three later pedimented dormers in the low-pitched hipped roof, and a blocking course is present on all projecting bays.

On the right return, there is a two-storey decorative cast iron loggia. Inside, the hall features a central staircase with turned balusters and a ramped handrail, along with some stucco decoration on the ceilings and cornices.