Old Groves

Old Groves is a cottage, likely dating from the 15th century, with substantial remodeling in the late 17th century, and later additions and alterations. The cottage is built of painted brick, which encapsulates a timber frame of cruck-framed construction. The right gable end is rendered. It has a slate roof. The present two-bay cottage incorporates a cruck-framed bay of what was formerly an open hall. The cottage is one storey and has an attic. There are 20th-century casement windows to either side of an infilled doorway located immediately to the right of the centre, and two full gabled eaves dormers with 20th-century casements. A small integral end stack is located to the left, and a prominent stepped external end stack is positioned to the right. The roof features projecting single-purlin and wall-plate ends. Interior inspection was unavailable during a resurvey in February 1987, but it was reported to retain two original cruck trusses, one in the centre of the building with a low horizontal beam having carved decoration on the right side, suggesting a coved dais truss, and the other to the right gable end. A single-storey gabled projection to the front on the left and a 20th-century addition to the left gable end are not of special architectural interest.