Grove House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House.
Grove House
- WRENN ID
- long-merlon-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Grove House, Old Ashford Road, Lenham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 900 522
- Coordinates
- 51.23741, 0.7205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove House is an early 19th-century house located on the north side of Lenham Old Ashford Road. It features grey-painted channeled stucco and a slate roof, with a double-depth design and two storeys. The hipped roof has projecting eaves with flat soffits, and there is one rendered ridge stack towards each end.
The front facade has a regular arrangement of five windows, which are glazing-bar sashes. These are alternated with a Giant Order of white-painted Doric pilasters. The outer pilasters create wide panels, while the inner ones support a plain frieze. The capitals of the two inner pilasters serve as imposts for a moulded semi-circular arch that leads up into a large plain triangular gable. On the ground floor, there are four French windows and a central door with six fielded panels.
A verandah wraps around the left side and front of the house, featuring a glazed roof supported by a plain iron trellis with occasional decorative vertical panels. The Giant Order of pilasters continues irregularly along the left side elevation, where three glazing-bar sashes are accompanied by white-painted keystones that are suggested in the plain frieze. There is a low two-storey extension to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Grove House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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