The Grove Inn

The Grove Inn is a public house that also incorporates a post office, dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a hipped thatch roof. The building features an axial brick stack and a rendered stack at the right end, with a demolished stack at the rear wing.

The plan of the building is L-shaped. The interior has been significantly altered in the 20th century, obscuring the original layout, but it seems to have originally consisted of three rooms in a line, with the two rooms on the left heated by the axial stack. There may be a blocked entrance in front of the stack, suggesting a three-room and lobby entry plan. The rear wing on the right appears to be integral to the main range and likely served as a kitchen. The front left room, now the post office, may have once been occupied separately. There is also a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension at the rear.

The exterior has two storeys and features a five-window range. There are two three-light casements with six panes per light at the left end above a four-panelled door, with a similar casement to the right. The right side has all six-paned sashes, with the central upper storey sash replaced in the 20th century, above another four-panelled door.

Inside, all three fireplaces in the main rooms have ovolo-moulded and scroll-stopped lintels, and there is a similarly moulded and stopped doorway between the two left-hand rooms. The interior has been much altered in the 20th century. The roof trusses are likely late 17th century and feature pegged 'A' frame trusses with deep protruding pegs and pegged halved and lapped collars.