Grove Cottage

Grove Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It features a timber frame on a stone plinth, with square framing three panels high. The front has 19th-century brick nogging, while the rear retains original wattle and daub. The roof is covered with Welsh slate, and there is a 19th-century brick flue attached to a rubble exterior stack on the left side.

The cottage has a two-unit plan, with the entrance leading directly into a heated room on the left and an unheated chamber with corner stairs on the right. It is one storey high with an attic and has a two-window front. The entrance includes a 20th-century plank door, with a two-light window immediately to the left and two similar casements to the right. The right gable end features the remains of an original two-light chamfered wood-mullioned window in the attic.

Inside, the cottage has chamfered ground-floor beams and wattle and daub infill on both floors of the central partition. There is an open fireplace on the left with carved brackets supporting the original spitrack above the bressummer, although the fireplace has been partly infilled for a late 19th-century cast-iron range. The room on the right has a partition that was added in the late 19th century for a pantry, along with a quarter-turn stair featuring a 19th-century newel and handrail that is morticed into the original upright of the winder stair. The first floor has oak floorboards, trenched purlins supporting a queen-post truss, and an original plank door with an oak latch.

Grove Cottage is a remarkably intact example of a two-room cottage from around 1700, typical of the Welsh Borders region, showcasing a late example of traditional timber framing with substantial timbers that still display carpentry marks.