Grove Lodge

Grove Lodge is a house built in the mid-19th century, likely in 1848. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof and has a rectangular plan consisting of two parallel ranges, with the broader one at the front. The house has two storeys and a cellar.

The front west elevation features a central gabled range with two windows that slightly projects forward, flanked by single-window wings on each side, arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern. The brickwork is tuck-pointed above a ruddled base, with gauged brick flat voussoirs. All windows are sashes, with the ground floor having three 3x4 pane windows plus margin lights, and the first floor having three 3x3 pane windows plus margin lights. The doorway, located in the second bay from the south, has a cornice hood and a moulded architrave, with a plain frieze, an over-light, and a door made of four recessed moulded panels. The cellar window is now blocked, but the grille remains. The gable barge-boards are slightly returned at the base, resembling a broken pediment. There are four stacks visible behind the roof ridge.

The rear east elevation has a similar form to the front but features a six-window range arranged in a 2:2:2 pattern, with segment-headed sashes that include glazing bars. The central and northern wing has 3x4 pane windows, while the southern wing has been significantly rebuilt after being derelict in the early 1960s and now has a similar window with 3x3 panes. A previous ground floor doorway, located in the second bay from the south, is now blocked. The rear house doorway in the central unit is segment-headed and has a 20th-century plain door with two glazed panels. There are four stacks behind the rear roof ridge, topped with 19th-century buff tapered square chimney pots.

The southern end elevation features two gabled units, with the lesser gable at the rear, and the barge-boards are shaped like broken pediments, similar to those on the front. There is a single segment-headed 19th-century sash window in the ground floor of the rear unit. The northern end elevation is plain except for a blind window recess in the ground floor of the front unit, with similar barge-boards as the southern end.

The interior was rebuilt in the 1960s. A plaque in the southern garden wall indicates that the house was built in 1848 by J.S. (Jane Shaul).