The Grove

The Grove is a house, originally built in 1737 and extended in the early 19th century. It is constructed of ashlar stone with hipped slate and stone tiled roofs. The main range has two rear ridge stacks. The house is two storeys and has an attic, set on a square plan with wings added to the rear.

The formal front facade has five windows, with a projecting central section. It features channelled angle pilasters, a raised plinth, moulded cornices over the main floors—the upper cornice having dentils—and a parapet with fielded panels over each bay. Two segmental-pedimented dormers light the attic. The central door is a six-panel design, set within an architrave with a segmental-pedimented surround supported by fluted Ionic pilasters. A floral ornament is incorporated into the tympanum above the door. The first-floor centre window is a 12-pane sash in an architrave with a pedimented surround on Corinthian pilasters. To either side are two-window ranges, each with 12-pane, thick glazing bar sashes in architraves, moulded sills, and fielded-panelled aprons below.

The west end of the house is of rubble stone with an upper dripcourse. A 20th-century two-storey canted bay has been added to the left, and to the right is a one-window range of three-light, bead-moulded windows with dripstones. The east side similarly displays a one-window range of three-light windows to the left.

The south-west and south-east rear wings were paired and added to the original house, with the rear right side of the original range built out to create a central feature of the new south front. Two segmental dormers are present on the original rear roof. The wings and centre are ashlar, constructed over two storeys with hipped roofs and side wall stacks. The wings feature a low ground floor, a tall upper floor, a raised plinth, a band, a moulded cornice, and a parapet; the cornice extends around the centre but terminates in a balustrade above. Each wing has a large, south-facing bow with three large arched, unmoulded upper windows with intersecting glazing bars and plate-glass sashes, accompanied by three plain ground-floor openings. The west wing has a 12-pane sash flanking the doorway, while the east wing features a window positioned in what was formerly a doorway, flanked by blank panels. The centre of the south front has an arched recess framing a very large, semi-circular window with intersecting glazing bars, accompanied by two smaller circular openings to either side. A sill course and band run below. The ground floor features 12-pane sashes flanking a half-glazed door. Curved screen walls flank the wings, constructed of ashlar with moulded coping and doorways set within blocked architraves featuring voussoirs, keyblocks, pulvinated friezes and pediments.

The interior is not accessible but is reported to contain fine 18th-century panelling and a staircase.