Grove House And Garage To South

Grove House and the garage to the south are located on Oare Road in Davington, Faversham. This building, originally a superintendent's house for the gunpowder works, dates back to the early 18th century and was re-fronted in the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with a stuccoed front and features a steep tiled hipped roof with ridge stacks.

The house has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall with an attic, presenting a symmetrical front that includes coved eaves. The early 19th-century door surround is adorned with incised pilasters and a moulded entablature, leading to a six-panel door, with the top pair being glazed. On either side of the entrance are hornless 8/8-pane sash windows, each with 19th-century ground-floor drip moulds, and there is a late 20th-century window set in the recess above the entrance. The house features two hipped dormers with mid-20th-century casements, while the sides of the building are windowless. The single-storey garage to the south is an 18th-century outbuilding made of English bond brick with a corrugated asbestos roof, which has segmental arches over two blocked openings that once led to a wheel pit facing the house.

The Oare Gunpowder Works began operations in 1719 and continued to develop until its closure in 1936. The three houses at the northeast end, including Grove House, were occupied by staff of the works and are the only surviving structures from that period. The garage also includes remains of an incorporating mill. During the Second World War, the house served as an officers' mess.