Grove Cottage

Grove Cottage is a house dating to the 18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, with the left-hand gable end rendered. The roof is covered with rag slate, featuring gable ends and rebuilt stone rubble and rendered brick stacks at each end. Originally, the house had a two-room and cross or through-passage plan, with a larger hall-kitchen on the right heated by an end stack, and a smaller room on the left which may have been unheated. A service extension was added in the later 18th or 19th century, and a further extension was added to the rear right in the 20th century. The front façade has an almost symmetrical two-window arrangement, featuring fine dressed stone segmental arches to the ground floor openings. A gabled porch is flanked by two 20th-century two-light casement windows, with two similar casements on the first floor. Inside, the partitions flanking the passage have been removed. The house contains 19th-century floor joists, an unmoulded timber lintel above the kitchen fireplace on the right, and possibly a reused timber lintel to the left.