The Grove

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5204 PIER PLAIN, Southtown And Gorleston 839-1/8/228 (East side) 27/06/53 No.5 The Grove

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House. 1813, extended to west and south mid C19. Gault brick under a slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys in 3 bays, each bay defined by a giant pilaster rising to block entablatures. 3-window range. Central 6-panelled and fielded door under fanlight with intersecting tracery. Reeded timber doorcase with roundels in upper corners. Horned sashes right and left have 8/8 glazing bars plus intersecting glazing bars under the arched top. Gauged arch. Three 6/6 horned sashes to first floor under gauged skewback arches. All the windows are recessed. Timber cornice and pediment extending between the pilasters, both with mutules. Gabled roof. Internal gable-end stack east and west. North flank with an arched staircase window. East return with a built-out timber weatherboarded look-out added c1900 and fitted with three 6/6 sashes. To west is a mid C19 addition with 2 giant pilasters framing a window bay, the upper window a 2/2 horned sash. West gable with two 2/2 horned sashes to each floor. The extension has a gabled roof with one gabled dormer to north and south. Running south is a single-storey mid C19 extension with a ridge stack, panelled walls and, to the west, 3 segmentally-headed sashes without glazing bars. INTERIOR: good stick-baluster staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail and turned newels. Ground-floor east room with plaster cornice and a ceiling centrepiece added in 1970. Ground-floor west room plain.

Listing NGR: TG5277204267