Grove Farmhouse

CLOPTON DRAB'S LANE TM 25 SW (West Side) 8/16 Grove Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17 with late C18/early C19 addition. Timber framed with rendered infill and brick with a plaintile and pantile roof. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: C20 fenestration. Late C18/early C19 single bay at right with a lean-to to its right flank. The late C16/early C17 portion at left of this has a projecting C20 gabled wing to left of centre. This wing has a panelled door at centre and single-light casement to right and a 2-light casement to the first floor. To left of the wing are a 2-light ground and first floor windows. To right are three 2-light and one 3-light ground floor casements and two 2-light casements at first floor level. At far right, in the added portion are a 3-light ground floor bow window and a 3-light gabled semi-dormer to the first floor. The right hand gable end is blank save for a C20 chimney stack. The left hand gable end has a 3-light ground floor and a 2-light first floor window with a blocked attic window. The lean-to at left has a 2-light ground floor casement. Rear: long outshut of C20 date at ground floor level. To the first floor at left are a single-light and two 3-light casements and at right a C17 3-light window with ovolo-moulded surround and mullions. The later addition at left of this has a 2-light ground floor casement and a 3- light first floor gabled semi-dormer.

Interior: close studding and chamfered ceiling beams to ground and first floors. Screens passage with screen which has moulded muntins. Jowled wall posts. Massive chimneybreast with baffle entry.

Listing NGR: TM2302254563