Sue Ryder Home

The Sue Ryder Home, formerly known as Joyce Grove, is a country house built in 1908 by C.E. Mallows for Robert Fleming. It is now a nursing home. The building is constructed of red brick with bath stone dressings and features a slate roof along with brick and stone stacks. Designed in the Jacobean style, it has a complex plan with two storeys and an attic, and a 13-window range.

To the left of the centre, there is a studded and ribbed double door with a wooden hood supported by wrought iron brackets. The central blind porch has round-headed mullion and transom windows on three sides. Most openings feature stone cross-windows, while the cross wings have stone straight-sided two-storey bay windows with mullion and transom windows. The roof is adorned with a balustraded parapet and shaped cross-gables, along with gabled dormers in the attic. The brick stacks have several flues, primarily located at the ridge, and other elevations maintain the same style and quality.

Inside, the ground floor rooms are finished with good quality Louis XV-style panelling. The staircase hall showcases Jacobean-style panelling and a wooden ribbed ceiling with painted panels. The staircase features a straight flight with a winder, and the staircase hall fireplace has a stone hood with niches supported by columns. The main bedroom, now known as the Fleming Room, includes a stone fireplace carved with putti holding garlands. The property also has attached stables and a garage block.

Historically, the house was built for Robert Fleming, a merchant banker, and later passed to Peter Fleming, an explorer and writer, who was the husband of actress Celia Johnson and the brother of Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels.