The Grove The Grove Including Retaining Wall, Piers And Steps

The Grove is a house dating to circa 1833. It is constructed of yellow stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with yellow-grey pilaster strips. The roof is Welsh slated, hipped, with broad, panelled eaves and flat brackets, and a grey brick chimney stack with oversailing bands. The house is of a square central entry, double-depth plan.

The west elevation has two storeys and attics. The first floor has three slightly recessed 12-pane sash windows, each beneath a rubbed brick flat arch. A plat band runs at first-floor level. The ground floor has two full-length sashes with six large panes, also with rubbed brick flat arches. Pilaster strips mark the ends and frame the centre bay, which contains twin-leaf, 2-panel doors with raised surrounds, set within a moulded frame and surmounted by a semicircular, traceried fanlight. A portico doorcase features Tuscan Doric columns and responds, an entablature with a plain fascia and frieze, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course, and is raised above three windows on the first floor. A large 20th-century timber conservatory covers the two left-hand bays. French windows with sidelights are located to the right.

The west elevation incorporates a canted oriel bay with triple 4:12:4-pane sashes, a brick spandrel raised on corbelled brick, an arched doorway left of centre with a half-glazed, margin-glazed door, and six-light French windows beneath a painted metal concave canopy roof with fretted valance.

The interior features plain details typical of the early 19th century. The central hall contains an open string staircase with cut, bracketed treads, stick balusters, and a moulded hardwood rail. The morning room has an egg-and-dart plaster cornice with an acanthus border to the ceiling, while the dining room has a scotia moulded plaster cornice and a reeded band. The kitchen at the rear has a flagged stone floor and a fitted dresser. On the first floor, a glazed lantern light illuminates the landing, and a large rear room includes an interpolated, reset 18th-century style fire surround with an eared architrave and a moulded shelf, alongside plaster wall panelling.

External features include a gateway to the main garden at the south-west corner of the house: this has brick piers topped with stone pineapples and a wrought-iron gate with segmental rails and scrolled Gothick ogee top. A tall, buttressed brown brick retaining wall, with flights of steps, piers, urns, and a fitted slate seat, runs to the east of the house.