The Grove Arms

The Grove Arms is an inn located on Salisbury Road in Donhead St. Mary. It dates back to the early 17th century, with additions made in the early 18th and 19th centuries. The building features dressed limestone and has a thatched roof on the 18th-century section, while the 17th-century part has a tiled roof with a hip and gable end brick stacks. The structure is L-shaped and two stories high, with five windows.

The 18th-century section on the left includes a 20th-century door set in a moulded case with a transom light and a flat wooden hood. To the right of this door is a large three-light mullioned casement, and there is a late 19th-century canted bay with four-pane sashes and two 16-pane flush sashes to the left. A plat band runs along the first floor, which has five two-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements.

The 17th-century section on the right features two three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements and a 20th-century door on the ground floor. The first floor has a three-light mullioned casement and larger five-light mullioned casements, with hoodmoulds above the right-hand windows. The right return of the building includes a fixed window and a two-light casement replacing a former mullioned casement on the left, a planked door, and an entrance to the courtyard on the right. There are stone and concrete steps leading to a first-floor six-panelled door on the left, and to the right is a four-light mullioned casement and a three-light leaded casement.

At the rear, there are 19th-century single-storey brick extensions that partly enclose a rear courtyard. Inside, the inn features chamfered beams, with those in the 17th-century range being deeply chamfered with stepped stops. The main bar has a corner fireplace with a stone eared surround, a cymna-moulded frieze, and a keystone to a heavily moulded cornice.