Grove Farmhouse

FLAMSTEAD PUDDEPHAT'S LANE TL 01 SE (South side) 4/44 Grove Farmhouse - Nos. 1, and 2 GV II

Farmhouse, now house (No. 2) and farmhouse at N half (No. 1). C17, N bay brick cased in C18, the rest of the exterior brick cased in C19, mid C19 NW parlour wing, subdivided 1953. Timber frame exposed internally on 1st floor in N bay. Red brick in Flemish-bond, NW wing in plum brick with hipped slate roof. Old red tile roofs generally. A long 2-storeys and cellar, 6 windows long building, facing E into yard. Built along slope with ground much lower on E with many steps to door. C19 new entrance on N into 2-storeys NW parlour wing. Lean-to extension at S end and gabled 2-storeys rear service wing at SW. Large internal chimney at centre of house, external N gable chimney with 2 diagonally set square shafts. C19 external chimney at S gable. E front has regular array of 3 windows to each side of centre and door under middle window in N part. 2-lights cast-iron framed, small-paned windows to 1st floor, and similar 3-lights windows to ground floor. Straight joint in brickwork to N part to N of door. C19 NW parlour wing in plum brick with brighter red dressings, Wallhead chimney on S wall and a window on each floor on W end and to RH of door on N. Recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes to 1st floor and margin-lights to ground floor. Segmental arches with chamfered jambs to windows. Interior of ground floor in No. 1 has chamfered cross-beam in front of central chimney. Sagging of roof between trusses suggest the C17 chimney may be an insertion into an older 4-bays house.

Listing NGR: TL0737813421