Grove Farmhouse

Grove Farmhouse is a late 16th-century 3-cell farmhouse with a 17th-century addition set forward, likely originally a dairy. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. It has two storeys and an attic in the main range. The windows are mostly casements dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. The 17th-century addition features a mid-20th century standard panel door and an open gabled porch. At the rear (south) of the main range are two matching late 19th-century doorways in the lobby and cross-entry positions. Each of these doorways has a half-glazed 4-panel door and a deep hood supported by shaped timber brackets. Inside, there is an internal stack with an original oblong shaft, and a 19th-century external stack at the left gable end. The interior retains plain studding, mainly on the upper floor. The hall ceiling features a heavy chamfered bridging beam with ogee stops and chamfered joists. The chamber above, which remains completely unpartitioned, also has heavy chamfered joists, and near the stack is a 17th-century cupboard. The joists in the parlour cell are concealed. A two-flight newel staircase is present. The roof has not been examined.