Grove House

Grove House is a house dating from the mid-to-late 18th century, with extensions and alterations made in the mid-to-late 19th century. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with contrasting headers and stretchers in the later section. Sandstone ashlar is used for the porch. The roofs are pantiled, with slate roofs on the bay windows. The layout is U-shaped, consisting of a two-room central entrance hall with a rear staircase, a kitchen wing, and servants' accommodation around a small courtyard to the rear.

The two-storey facade has five first-floor windows. The original three-window 18th-century section is on the left, with a 19th-century section to the right. A large, projecting Doric porch from the 19th century features fluted columns, an entablature with triglyphs, a moulded cornice, and a pediment. The porch contains an ashlar Venetian door with narrow sidelights, a wide six-fielded-panel door, and a plain overlight. Single, 19th-century canted bay windows flank the porch, with stucco cills, twelve-pane sashes, eight-pane side sashes and hipped roofs. A blocked 18th-century entrance is located to the left of centre. First-floor windows are twelve-pane sashes in flush wood architraves with stucco flat arches and cills. A moulded wooden cornice and gutter run along the top of the building. The roof is hipped with end and axial stacks.

The left side of the house, facing the street, has a six-fielded-panel door under a channelled and keyed stucco flat arch, flanked by single four-pane sashes in flush wood architraves with similar aches. A twelve-pane sash and a painted dummy sash are on the first floor. There is a stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. The 18th-century kitchen range is set back on the left, with two low storeys and three bays, featuring a board door flanked by a twelve-pane sash and a twelve-pane sliding sash under segmental arches. A first-floor twelve-pane sliding sash and stepped eaves are also present.

The interior includes a Doric-pilastered entrance hall, a mid-19th-century geometric staircase with a wreathed hardwood handrail and slender moulded cast-iron balusters, moulded plaster cornices to the main rooms, fine six-panel mahogany doors to the front ground floor rooms, Adam-style composition chimneypieces on the first floor, and panelled window shutters and doors in architraves throughout.