Grove Hotel And Grove Parade

The Grove Hotel and Grove Parade is a hotel with shops, dating back to around 1770 with later additions in the 18th century, and further alterations in 1883, possibly by the landlord Joseph Whalley. The building is constructed of dressed gritstone with painted stucco and ashlar dressings, featuring Welsh slate roofs and grouped stone stacks.

The building is four storeys high, with a distinctive first- and second-floor sill band. It presents a nine-window range along Terrace Road, with a canted corner to the right, and a three-storey plus attic, three-window range to Spring Gardens. A prominent ornate cast-iron canopy runs along the front, supported by columns and featuring openwork panels and a glazed lean-to roof. The Terrace Road section has a segmental arch inscribed "GROVE HOTEL" within an ornate iron wreath, while the Spring Gardens section has a smaller segmental arch inscribed "BAR" with a similar wreath. This canopy extends north across No. 5 Grove Parade.

The central hotel entrance is framed by a painted ashlar surround with pilasters and paired brackets supporting a segmental pediment, leading to a double panel door. Flanking the hotel entrance are shops with recessed doorways, some retaining late 19th-century shop fronts. The Terrace Road elevation’s upper windows are a mix of sashes, with nine larger and nine smaller sashes above. The Spring Gardens range features three sashes above the ground floor and three dormers in the attic, including a central flat-roofed dormer with a three-light cross casement flanked by single gabled dormers with plain sashes.

The rear of the building was significantly altered in the 19th and 20th centuries, and includes semi-circular bay windows. Inside, the bar features encased, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.