2, Grove Street

WANTAGE GROVE STREET SU3987NE (East side) 9/81 No.2 22/04/50 (Formerly listed as Falcon House)

GV II

Town house, now restaurant and flat. Early C17. Irregular, timber framing much restored at gabled front, with C18 brick to right side wall; rendering to left side wall; rear wall rebuilt in late C19/early C20 brick; C20 tile roof; brick stacks. 3-unit plan, probably with lobby entry originally. 2 storeys; 4-window range to side walls. Right side wall has C20 door and four C17 three-light wood-mullioned splayed casements, (2 blocked), and C20 casements. Left side wall has C18 three-light leaded casements on first floor. Gabled front to street largely rebuilt in C20; C17 brackets to soffit-moulded jetty; decorative bargeboard with pendant. Gabled roof; ridge and rear gable end stacks. Interior: Ground floor has chamfered and stopped beams, open fireplaces with original chamfered bressumer to front of chalk chimney stack. First floor has C17 plank doors with strap hinges, chamfered beams with original joists exposed to rear; winder stairs to left side of stack; timber-framed partition wall to rear of room behind stack. 4-bay roof with windbraces is obscured at front, and 2 bays with partial survival to rear.

Listing NGR: SU3982687952