Groves House

Groves House is a house dating from the 17th century, with early 18th-century external details and a 19th-century parallel rear extension. It has two storeys, a cellar, and attics. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with the north gable rebuilt in brick, incorporating an earlier internal gable chimney. A lateral stack is located at the rear southeast. The roof features a steep pitch and is covered in old red tiles.

A parallel rear wing was added in brick with a slate roof, featuring an ornate cast iron rainwater head at the north end of the valley gutter, marked 'IH 1851'. The west facade is symmetrical, with three window bays and a central door, but the house extends further north to accommodate a large hearth. It has a plinth, a large cove to the eaves returned before the corner, and three-light mullioned wood casement windows with central iron opening lights and rectangular leaded glazing. The front door is made of six panels, with the top two glazed, set within a heavy frame with an architrave. Bold shaped brackets support a moulded flat hood.

The house was associated with the coachbuilder Samuel Patmore Groves, and was part of his workshops. It is an interesting survival in an area undergoing commercial development.