Groves House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1980. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
Groves House
- WRENN ID
- lone-joist-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Groves House, London Road, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9JN
- OS grid reference
- TL 481 149
- Coordinates
- 51.81362, 0.1478
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Groves House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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