Grove Farmhouse

Grove Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with later extensions. It has two storeys and attics, constructed in a timber-framed style with a rendered finish and a clay pantile roof. The building has a basic three-cell form. An internal chimney stack features a plain white brick shaft with a pilaster strip down the front. A small two-storey wing projects from the front and contains the entrance, which has a slightly recessed plank door set in a square surround with moulded jambs. The windows include old two-light and three-light casements with a single horizontal bar; one window on the west side has been replaced in the 20th century.

There is a two-storey 19th-century extension made of colour-washed brick and slates, which includes a three-light casement window with a segmental arched head. A late 19th-century single-storey lean-to overlaps part of the main range and the extension. Inside, the timber-framed range consists of five bays and lacks a chimney-bay. It features good exposed studding, with the main beam to the east of the stack displaying ovolo-moulding and unusual squared-off stops with grooves. To the west, there are chamfered cross-beams with stepped stops, chamfered main posts with run-off pyramid stops, and heavily jowled heads, along with arched braces to the tie-beams. On the upper floor, one original window is blocked, but the mullions are visible through the plaster. The ceiling of the wing has been partly cut away to accommodate a late Victorian stair, while the upper ceilings remain original. The roof is structured in six bays with two rows of unstepped butt purlins and windbraces, and the rafters are pegged to the purlins. The building is irregularly divided into two dwellings and is situated on a moated site.