Grove Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Built in two main phases, both dating from the 16th century, with a rear stair wing added in the early 17th century, now incorporated into later lean-to additions. The farmhouse is timber framed, with the front and right gable end roughcast-rendered, and the rest plastered. It has a pantiled roof. The structure comprises two sections, the one to the right slightly recessed and lower, likely the later addition. It is two storeys high with an attic in the left section. Various casement windows are present, mostly from the 19th century to the left, and mid-20th century metal-framed windows to the right. There is a lobby entrance with a 19th-century six-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed, and a flat-roofed open porch supported by square timber posts. A mid-20th century door is located to the left. A central axial stack is positioned at the end of the right section; the lower portion of the shaft is original, while the upper part was rebuilt in the 19th century. A small, late stack is on the outside of the left gable end.

Inside the left section, there is good full-height studding with curved wall braces and blocked diamond-mullioned windows. It features cambered tie beams with heavy arched braces. On the ground floor, the ceiling of the main room has a chamfered bridging beam and heavy plain joists. The roof is a plain crown-post roof with largely unbraced collar purlin. The right-hand section has some plain studding with S-shaped wall braces. An unmodernised service chamber to the extreme right contains two blocked diamond-mullioned windows and remnants of black paintwork on the timbers, thought to be original. The ground floor structure is largely concealed, and a service partition has been removed. Behind the stack, there is a newel stair, substantially original, within a small addition with a well-preserved ovolo-mullioned window.