The Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. House.

The Grove

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1983
Type
House
Address
The Grove, Bridgham
OS grid reference
TL 965 859
Coordinates
52.43632, 0.89043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Grove is a house dating from the early 17th century, with later alterations. It features a timber frame with brick infilling and a tiled gable roof, designed in a lobby entrance plan. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a brick plinth. A central jettied porch spans two storeys and has a gabled roof, supported by a dentiled bressemer on acanthus consoles. There are timber cross casement windows on the first floor of the porch and to the left and right of the facade, along with an inserted French window at the extreme right. The roof includes four flat-topped dormers above the main windows and a central chimney stack. The west gable has crow-stepped brickwork and an internal chimney stack. Attached to the gable wall is a gabled stair turret featuring a single cross window with leaded panes set under a segmental arch. The gable displays Flemish bond brickwork, likely reconstructed in the later 17th century.

At the rear, there is a large central tower with three storeys, an attic, and a gabled roof, featuring varied windows. To the left, there are two cross mullioned windows on each floor, one of which has four lights, while to the right, there is a similar two-light window on each floor. A later one-storey addition made of clay lump is present on a rendered brick plinth. The interior has undergone some reconstruction, featuring panelled wainscoting and a ceiling spine beam on the ground floor.

Local climate

The Grove sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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