Grove Farm House

Grove Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with 19th-century additions at the rear. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster infilling and a plain tile roof. The house consists of two timber-framed bays and a central stack bay, standing two storeys high with a garret on a chequered red and grey brick plinth. The close-studded facade is irregularly divided by principal posts and has square panelling with two unequal panels per storey. The right gable end displays decorative diamond studding and has eaves that jet out on an ovolo-moulded bressumer, supported by carved brackets under the wall-plate ends. A similar, shallower jetty is present on the left side.

The red and grey brick stack is located on the front slope of the roof towards the centre and features four diagonally-set flues with corniced tops. The windows are arranged irregularly, including a three-light leaded casement towards the left end and a rectangular leaded light under the stack. There is evidence of oriel windows at the centre of the first floor in each outer bay. A 19th-century two-storey canted bay is situated at the centre of the right gable end, flanked on both floors by three-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows. The rear wings are made of brick and likely replace an earlier structure.

The entrance features a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight set in a reeded architrave with paterae, located within a brick porch at the junction of the main range and the right rear wing. The interior has only been partly inspected, revealing a ceiling in the right ground-floor room divided into nine panels by moulded cross and axial beams with panelled soffits, edged with cornice beams. The principal posts are jowled, and the roof structure includes clasped purlins, diminishing principal rafters, windbraces, and queen-struts to the collars.