Grove Farm House

GROVE LANE TQ 74 NW HUNTON (South Side) 4/80 Grove Farm House 23.5.67 GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17, with C19 rear additions. Timber-framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. 2 timber-framed bays and central stack bay. 2 storeys and garret on chequered red and grey brick plinth. Close-studded, with facade irregularly divided by principal posts. Square panelling of 2 unequal panels per storey. Decorative diamond studding to right gable end. Eaves of right gable end jettied on ovolo- moulded bressumer, with carved brackets under wall-plate ends. Similar, shallower, jetty to left. Red and grey brick stack in front slope of roof towards centre, with 4 diagonally-set flues with corniced tops. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows; one 3-light leaded casement towards left end and rectangular leaded light under stack. Evidence for oriel windows to centre of first floor of each outer bay. C19 two-storey canted bay to centre of right gable end, flanked on both floors by 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows. C19 brick rear wings, possibly replacing an earlier structure. Panelled door with rectangular fanlight in reeded architrave with paterae, within brick porch, to junction of main range and right rear wing. Interior: only partly inspected. Ceiling of right ground-floor room divided into 9 panels by moulded cross and axial beams with panelled soffits, and edged with cornice beams. Jowled principal posts. Clasped purlin roof, with diminishing principal rafters, windbraces and queen-struts to collars.

Listing NGR: TQ7150249472