Farmbuildings At Grove Farm

SE 70 NW BELTON WROOT ROAD (west side) Sandtoft 6/33 Farmbuildings at Grove Farm

GV II

Farmbuildings. Late C18 - early C19, with mid C19 horse mill and enclosed foldyard. Brown brick, rendered and pebbledashed to north and west ranges. Pantile roofs throughout. Approximately rectangular on plan: stockman's house and stable/granary range to south side; adjoining threshing barn and horse mill to north-west side, pigeon-house and cow-house range to south- west and south sides, implement shed to east side, enclosed foldyard within. North range, south side: 2-storey, single-window stockman's house with lower 2-storey stable/granary range to west with 3 first-floor openings. House has board door with 12-pane sliding sash to right, single similar first- floor window beneath lintel at eaves level, dentilled brick eaves cornice; stone-coped gable with shaped kneelers, end stacks. Single 4-pane first- floor casement to right gable end. Adjoining range has 4 board doors and a pair of hatches to left, small sliding sash to right; small wooden hatches to first floor. Stepped eaves. North side: stable/granary range has board door, blocked door and single ventilation hatch to ground floor, series of small breather slits at first-floor level, pair of first-floor hatches with board doors. Threshing barn: west side has partly blocked original waggon entrance beneath timber lintel, with inserted lintel and pair of board doors below, 3 breather slits to left; north gable end has external brick staircase with stone treads to first-floor 2-fold board door, stone-coped gable with shaped kneelers; first-floor hatch to south gable end; waggon entrance to east courtyard with board doors beneath timber lintel. Horse mill adjoining to west, rectangular on plan, has pairs of openings to each side, hipped roof. Single-storey cow-house range with 2-storey granary/pigeoncote to east: single board hatches and sliding doors to south and west sides of cow house range; pigeoncote has pair of breathers at first-floor level, dentilled brick eaves cornice, brick-coped gables and pair of pigeon-holes to east gable. 11-bay implement shed with timber piers. Triple-span hipped roof to foldyard. Originally the home farm attached to Sandtoft Hall (qv), formerly known as Sandtoft Grove. Probably the earliest and most complete example in South Humberside of a mid C19 model farm with horse mill and enclosed foldyard.

Listing NGR: SE7419507592