2, Grove Street

No. 2 Grove Street is a town house that has been converted into a restaurant and flat. It dates from the early 17th century and features irregular timber framing that has been largely restored at the gabled front. The right side wall is constructed of 18th-century brick, while the left side wall is rendered. The rear wall was rebuilt in late 19th or early 20th-century brick, and the building has a 20th-century tile roof with brick stacks. The layout is a three-unit plan, likely originally with a lobby entry.

The house has two storeys and a four-window range on the side walls. The right side wall includes a 20th-century door and four 17th-century three-light wood-mullioned splayed casements, two of which are blocked, along with some 20th-century casements. The left side wall features 18th-century three-light leaded casements on the first floor. The gabled front facing the street has been largely rebuilt in the 20th century, but retains 17th-century brackets under the soffit-moulded jetty and a decorative bargeboard with a pendant. The roof is gabled, with stacks at the ridge and rear gable end.

Inside, the ground floor has chamfered and stopped beams, as well as open fireplaces with original chamfered bressumers in front of the chalk chimney stack. The first floor contains 17th-century plank doors with strap hinges, chamfered beams with original joists exposed at the rear, and winder stairs to the left side of the stack. There is also a timber-framed partition wall at the rear of the room behind the stack. The roof has four bays with windbraces, although the front is obscured, and there are two bays with partial survival at the rear.