Farmbuildings At Grove Farm

Farmbuildings. Dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with additions from the mid-19th century, these farmbuildings were originally the home farm attached to Sandtoft Hall. They were formerly known as Sandtoft Grove and are probably the earliest and most complete example in South Humberside of a mid-19th century model farm, featuring a horse mill and enclosed foldyard. The buildings are constructed of brown brick, with rendered and pebbledashed finishes on the north and west ranges. They have pantile roofs throughout.

The buildings are arranged approximately in a rectangular layout, with a stockman’s house and stable/granary range to the south side, a threshing barn and horse mill to the north-west side, a pigeon-house and cow-house range to the south-west and south sides, and an implement shed to the east side, all enclosed within a foldyard.

The north range, on its south side, features a two-storey stockman's house with a lower two-storey stable/granary range to the west. The stockman's house has a board door and a 12-pane sliding sash window to the right, a similar single window above the eaves, a dentilled brick eaves cornice, a stone-coped gable with shaped kneelers, and end stacks. A four-pane casement window is set into the right gable end. The adjoining stable/granary range has four board doors and a pair of hatches to the left, and a small sliding sash window to the right, with smaller wooden hatches to the first floor. The north side of the stable/granary range has a board door, a blocked door, a single ventilation hatch to the ground floor, and a series of small breather slits at first-floor level, along with a pair of first-floor hatches with board doors.

The threshing barn has a partly blocked original waggon entrance beneath a timber lintel on its west side, with an inserted lintel and pair of board doors below. Three breather slits are to the left, and the north gable end has an external brick staircase with stone treads leading to a first-floor 2-fold board door. A first-floor hatch is to the south gable end and a waggon entrance with board doors is visible to the east courtyard. The horse mill, adjoining the barn to the west, is rectangular in plan and has pairs of openings on each side and a hipped roof.

The single-storey cow-house range has a two-storey granary/pigeoncote to the east. The cowhouse has board hatches and sliding doors to the south and west sides. The pigeoncote has two breathers at first-floor level, a dentilled brick eaves cornice, brick-coped gables, and a pair of pigeon-holes to the east gable. The implement shed is a single-story, eleven-bay building with timber piers. It has a triple-span hipped roof over the foldyard.