Saling Grove

Saling Grove is a house built around 1754, with additions and alterations from the 19th century. It features a plastered brick exterior and a hipped grey slate roof, along with a red brick chimney stack on the right. The house stands three storeys tall, with a parapet raised over the three central bays. The facade has a window arrangement of 2:3:2, consisting of vertically-sliding sashes that are fitted with internal panelled shutters. There are two decorative bands on the building.

A central three-bay flat-headed portico is supported by four columns with moulded capitals and bases. The entrance is framed by a fine Corinthian door surround, which includes a moulded and dentilled frieze and a pediment. Stone dogs are positioned to the right and left of the portico, leading to a six-panelled door.

To the left of the main house is a gault-brick extension, also with a grey slate roof hipped to the left and a single gault-brick chimney stack. This extension is two storeys high and features a moulded eaves cornice and a central band. It has a three-window range of vertically sliding sashes with gauged brick arches.

At the rear of the extension is a large clock tower made of gault brick, which consists of four stages above the roof level. The first stage has a vertically-sliding sash window with a gauged brick arch and a moulded outward splayed cornice above. The second stage is plain with a moulded band above it, while the third stage features a clock face, a moulded band, and a moulded pediment. The fourth stage has a sounding louvre, an extended moulded band, and is topped with a circular lead-covered dome that has a wrought-iron weathercock.

Inside, the house retains 18th and 19th-century finishes and a staircase. The grounds were landscaped by Humphry Repton, and Saling Grove is believed to be the only remaining Georgian house in Essex that was completed with a Repton garden. The property was mentioned in the Victoria and Albert Museum Exhibition in 1983.