Grove Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1987. A C15/C16 House.
Grove Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- small-crypt-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grove Farmhouse, School Road, Elmstead
- OS grid reference
- TM 063 237
- Coordinates
- 51.87413, 0.99603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 15th or 16th century, with alterations and additions made in the 18th century and later. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, sitting on a brick plinth, and features a red plain tiled roof. The house has two storeys and displays three small paned vertically sliding sash windows. The central entrance consists of a panelled door with a top light, surrounded by a moulded frame and topped with a flat canopy supported by brackets.
Originally, the building was made up of two separate sections, with the left side possibly being an earlier crosswing that includes heavy arched braces supporting the tie beams. The right section consists of one bay with a crosswing on the right, which was formerly jettied and features moulded bridging and ceiling joists that indicate the line of the jetty. Additional notable features include jowled storey posts, a very heavy storey post at the rear, an inserted restored chimney stack, a mullion window, and an 18th or 19th century cast iron basket grate.
Local climate
Grove Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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