Avon Grove

Avon Grove is a house dating from around 1840 to 1845, built on the Black Hall estate (listed separately). A 20th-century extension was added later. The house is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with slate hanging on the left-hand west side. It has an asbestos slate hipped roof with deep eaves, the rear slope being lower over the rear rooms. The symmetrical chimney stacks have been heightened.

The house has a roughly square, double-depth plan. The front is arranged with two principal rooms, an entrance hall containing the staircase, and smaller rooms to the rear. The right-hand rear room is a study, and the left-hand rear room is the kitchen. A narrow single-storey wing at the back of the kitchen likely housed a pantry and other service areas. A 20th-century extension was added to the right rear, and the front porch was replaced.

The south front is symmetrical with three windows. The first floor windows are 19th-century 16-pane sashes, and the ground floor windows are larger 19th-century 12-pane sashes with cills close to ground level. The central doorway features a 19th-century six-panel door – the bottom two panels being flush, the top four fielded, with a rectangular overlight containing margin glazing bars. An early 20th-century glazed wooden porch replaced an earlier 19th-century porch, which reputedly had a tented roof. The left-hand return has a blind window to the right and 16-pane sashes to the left towards the rear. The right-hand east return features a large 12-pane sash to the left, with a blind window above, and 16-pane sashes to the right towards the rear.

Internally, the right and left-hand front rooms have moulded plaster ceiling cornices and black marble fireplaces; the left-hand fireplace is painted white. The study behind the right-hand room also retains its original fireplace. Much of the original 19th-century joinery remains, including panelled doors, window shutters, and a closed string staircase with stick balusters and a moulded handrail ramped to turned newels, situated to the left of the entrance hall.