The Old Grove

The Old Grove is a house dating from the early 16th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 17th and 18th centuries. It has 1½ storeys and attics, featuring a timber-framed structure that is rendered. The roof is thatched and includes a 17th-century axial chimney made of red brick. There are 20th-century eyebrow dormers with oak mullions, as well as 20th-century oak mullioned windows and boarded entrance doors. The building originally had a small 2-cell open hall design, with traces of soot-blackening on the wall framing and evidence of original doorways leading into two service rooms on the left. There are further 18th-century extensions to both the left and right of the hall. The roof was rebuilt in the 18th century, reusing sooted rafters from the original coupled-rafter type roof over the hall area. The property was restored around 1970.