Brightwell Grove

Brightwell Grove is a farmhouse, now a house, built around 1820-1830 and remodeled around 1980 by David Hicks. The front is stuccoed, while the rest is made of coursed chalk rubble with brick quoins and dressings. It features a gabled Welsh slate roof with brick ridge and end stacks. The building has a double-depth plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a symmetrical three-window arrangement. A wide-span gabled roof with deep eaves covers one-bay projections that have broken pediments in the outer bays. There is a 20th-century door with a trellised porch in the left bay, and the outer bays contain two-light casements. The central section has a decorative lunette above tripartite sashes and a verandah from around 1980. To the left is a two-storey range made of similar materials, featuring a two-window front with blind Gothick windows. Inside, there are 19th and 20th-century doors. A room at the rear contains fine murals by Rex Whistler from 1937, painted in grisaille on a blue ground with silver enrichments. These murals were originally created for Lady Mountbatten at Brook House in London, then moved to Brightwell House, and later to Brightwell Grove by David Hicks and Lady Pamela Hicks.