The Grove Farmhouse And Attached Walls

LOPPINGTON C.P. BURLTON SJ 42 NE 10/20 The Grove Farmhouse - and attached walls - II Farmhouse. Early to mid-C19 remodelling of mid-C18 house; later additions and alterations. Red brick on sandstone plinth with chamfered angle quoins to front and regularly coursed and dressed sandstone blocks to right return; hipped slate roof. L-plan with later range in angle to rear on left. 2 storeys with floor band and stepped eaves cornice to front and cill band and moulded eaves cornice to right return. 3-window front; late C20 casements to first floor and contemporary window in C19 pointed opening to left of entrance with similar blocked opening to right. Central entrance; C20 gabled porch over C19 six-panel door with pointed Gothic overlight. Integral brick end stack to left. Right return has four C20 casements in C19 openings to each floor, those to ground floor pointed. Blind mock gun-loop to centre on first floor with similar gun-loop to end wall. Brick ridge stack to centre and another similar stack behind ridge to right. Two blind rectangular openings on ground floor to end wall. C19 addition in angle to rear has early C19 vertical posts with light horizontal timbers and red brick infill to first floor but gable end has been clad or rebuilt in late C19 red brick. Two sections of wall attached to front and rear: roughly coursed sandstone rubble and coursed blocks with coping. Both walls terminate in rectangular piers, section to front also having mock arrow- loops and rectangular turret projecting to centre.

Listing NGR: SJ4582725912