Grove End

Grove End is a house that dates from the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries. It is timber framed with exposed plaster infill, and part of it is underbuilt with painted brick. The rear (south) front is clad in 18th-century red brick and has a plain tiled roof. The building features a continuous jetty and was originally designed as a Wealden house with a screens passage. A staircase porch and wing were added to the rear, which now serves as the main entrance front. The house has two storeys and a garret, with the ground floor close-studded and a continuous first-floor jetty. It has a hipped roof with a central stack and a projecting return-hip wing to the right. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of five wooden casement windows. The central two-storey projecting staircase porch has a board door on the right return front, and there is a 19th-century extension to the left. Inside, there is a 17th-century winder and newel staircase, mid-17th-century fielded panelling, fireplaces with sword-leaf spandrels, and moulded doors and doorways, including two moulded doors from the screens passage to the service wing. The house was added to by Sir Edward Hales, the first Baronet, who died in 1654.