Grove House

Grove House is an early 19th-century farmhouse, now a residential home, with later 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of red-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern and has a Welsh slate roof, with concrete tiles to a right-hand extension. The original design was L-shaped, with a two-room, central entrance-hall front and a wing to the rear left. A single-bay wing and a rear addition are set back to the right, and a single-bay extension and rear wing project to the left.

The main front, facing to the right, is symmetrical with three bays and two storeys. The entrance has stone steps with moulded nosings leading to a painted ashlar Doric doorcase. This features engaged columns supporting dosserets with a plain frieze, a moulded cornice, and a bracketed open segmental pediment. The entrance has half-glazed, panelled double doors beneath a moulded lintel and a fanlight containing a central round light within a round-headed, panelled reveal. Early 19th-century canted bay windows with 12-pane front sashes and 8-pane side sashes are located on either side of the entrance, with architraves, continuous sills, and low hipped roofs. A later left-hand bay has an inappropriate 20th-century 2-light casement within an original 19th-century wooden architrave. The first floor has three 16-pane sashes to the original section and a 12-pane sash to the left bay, all with architraves and sills beneath channelled wedge lintels with carved keys. A moulded wooden eaves cornice and corniced gutter run along the roofline. A ridge stack with a cogged brick eaves cornice is on the left, with a truncated side wall stack on the right. A range set back to the right has a small 20th-century casement within an original 19th-century wooden architrave, situated under a brick cambered arch.

The left return front has a pilastered doorcase with a bracketed hood and an inserted 20th-century 2-light window above brick blocking. A single first-floor 4-pane sash sits below a cambered, channelled, and keyed wedge lintel. A slightly higher two-storey, two-window wing to the left has a canted ground-floor bay with pilasters, a bracketed hood, and a hipped roof. It has four-pane ground- and first-floor sashes with sills beneath channelled, keyed cambered wedge lintels, a hipped roof, and a corniced side wall stack.

Internally, early 19th-century details include ribbed cornices to the main rooms and halls, plasterwork ceiling roundels in the entrance hall and stairhall, and an elliptical arch with a ribbed archivolt to the entrance hall. A marble chimney-piece is located on the ground floor to the right, flanked by round-headed alcoves with ribbed archivolts. An open-well staircase has a moulded handrail and turned balusters. Later 19th-century features consist of a chimney-piece, plasterwork cornice, and ceiling to the rear wing.