Grovelands Farmhouse

Grovelands Farmhouse is a small farmhouse dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed from plastered local stone rubble with sections of cob, featuring a stone rubble stack topped with 19th-century brick and a shingle roof that was formerly thatch. The house has a three-room plan and faces west-south-west. On the left end is an unheated room that was formerly used as a dairy, which is larger than typical dairies. The central room serves as the main living area and is heated by an axial stack that backs onto a small unheated room on the right, which was formerly a cellar or buttery and may be a 19th-century extension.

The farmhouse is two storeys high. The exterior has an irregular two-window front with a third ground floor window at the right end; all windows are 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars, and the first-floor windows are half dormers. The front doorway, which is roughly central and leads into the centre room, features a 19th-century part-glazed plank door. The front is supported by a couple of raking buttresses, and the roof is gable-ended.

Inside, the left and centre rooms both have roughly-chamfered crossbeams with straight cut stops. The fireplace in the centre room is made of stone rubble with an oak-framed front, and its rear oven was relined in the 19th century. A passage to the left of the fireplace connects the centre and left rooms and appears to have been created by knocking through an original walk-in curing chamber. The straight flight stair rising to the right of the fireplace is from the 19th century and likely replaced an original winder stair. The roof was not inspected, but the bases of straight principals seen on the first floor suggest they are from original A-frame roof trusses.