The Grove

The Grove is a house dating from around 1600, with extensions made in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. It has a timber frame, with the lower storey clad in red brick in Flemish bond around 1980, while the upper part is roughcast. The roof is covered with handmade red plain tiles. The building features a 4-bay lobby-entrance plan facing southeast. The original axial stack has been replaced by a smaller stack from the 19th or early 20th century, and there is a 19th-century internal stack at the right end, with the original service bay located at the rear of the right bay.

To the left end, there is an 18th-century extension that extends to the rear, featuring an internal stack against the front wall, another stack in the rear wall, and a small lean-to on the right, possibly used as a garderobe. There is also an 18th or 19th-century stack at the rear of the original service wing and a 19th-century extension beyond it, with a lean-to on the left. An early 20th-century stair tower is situated between the rear wings.

The house has two storeys, with three early 20th-century casements and French windows on the ground floor, and seven early 20th-century casements on the first floor. The entrance features an early 20th-century door, and the roof is hipped at the left end. Inside, there are jowled posts, close studding, and curved bracing that is trenched inside the studs, which are partly exposed in the right bays. The building includes chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and an ovolo-moulded axial beam in the left bay of the original main range, along with plain joists of horizontal section.

The left bay of the main range has early 17th-century oak panelling, while the right bay and the upper storey of the left extension feature 18th-century pine panelling. There is a 17th or 18th-century three-light window with a wrought iron casement in the rear wall of the original service range, which is now enclosed by the extension, and a 19th-century bread oven with a wrought iron door. The owner has deeds and diaries related to the building dating back to 1777.