Grove House

Grove House is an early 18th century building with alterations, located in West Grove. It is a three-storey, three-window front, though not perfectly symmetrical. The roof is moderately pitched, covered with large slates, and partly hidden behind a parapet with three recessed panels. The front is stuccoed and features three-light sash windows with glazing bars on each floor, except for a single-light sash with glazing bars at the centre of the second floor. A projecting central feature includes a round-arched window on the first floor, now blocked except for the head. Below the window is a double door consisting of four fielded panels, a corniced head, and a rectangular fanlight. Iron boot scrapers are set into the wall on either side of the door, and an old iron bell pull is located to the right of the door. The right bay of the ground floor projects outwards, nearly as far as the central feature. The north return wall is constructed of reddish-brown brick with red brick dressings, incorporating bands at the first and second floors and segmental gauged brick arches over sash windows (mostly renewed) in near-flush frames. At the rear, there is an early 19th century rounded bow extending over the basement and two stories. A curved wall is visible at the north-west corner, leading to a yard gate.

The interior retains 18th century panelling in several rooms on each floor. A large ground floor room in the south-east corner has raised and fielded panelling, a moulded cornice, and a 19th century ceiling frieze. It also features an early 19th century marble chimneypiece. A ground floor room in the south-west corner has an 18th century marble chimneypiece. The hall is paneled from floor to ceiling with fluted pilasters at the staircase end. The staircase is an 18th century dogleg design, running from the ground to the first floor, featuring an open string with tread ends decorated with simple carved brackets, two column-on-vase balusters per tread, a moulded wreathed and ramped handrail, square-topped newels, and a panelled dado. The section of staircase from the first to the second floor has a closed string and alternating column-on-vase and barley sugar twist balusters, also with a panelled dado.