Grove Farmhouse

Grove Farmhouse is a mid to late 16th-century farmhouse, subsequently altered and extended in the late 19th or early 20th century. It is timber-framed with wattle and daub, brick, and pebbledashed infill, with some areas rebuilt in red brick, and has a plain tile roof. The framing exhibits diagonal strutting and close studding beneath the windows. The house follows a T-plan, incorporating one framed bay of a former hall range, alongside a cross wing of two framed bays to the east.

The north front features an integral brick lateral stack to the left. The cross wing on the left has a jettied first floor with a moulded bressumer ornamented with billets, and a jettied gable featuring end brackets and a moulded cambered tie-beam. Each jetty has a coving beneath, formed by small curved brackets with plaster between, springing from projecting billet-ornamented rails. The gable displays a king-post truss with diagonal strutting. A first-floor 19th-century three-light wooden casement is present, along with a ground-floor oriel window with a 19th-century four-light wooden casement, and a 16th-century moulded cill. The hall range is set back to the right and has a 20th-century centre-hung metal casement on the first floor and a ground-floor casement. A single-storey brick lean-to addition is located to the right. The left-hand return front contains various wooden casements, and a first-floor window with 12 panes. A late 19th or early 20th-century addition is situated to the rear, comprising two parallel ranges.

Internally, a ground-floor room within the cross wing features a large chamfered beam with curved run-out stops, and joists. A stud partition separates the hall range from the cross wing; a four-centred arched doorway within this partition was recorded during a survey in October 1986. The cross wing contains a chamfered jowl-post extending to ceiling level, and a chamfered ground-floor wall plate with broach stops dividing the front and rear rooms. A ground-floor front room retains 17th-century panelling. A blocked first-floor two-light window with a chamfered mullion is found in the wall separating the 16th and 19th-century ranges. At the time of survey, a single barleysugar baluster from a late 17th or early 18th-century staircase survived, unfixed, in the rear range. The late 19th or early 20th-century extension converted the original structure into a service range, including a dairy.