The Grove

SO 72 SW TAYNTON -

7/233 The Grove

2.10.54

II

Farmhouse; late C16, C17, C18, C19, extended and altered 1924 by H. F. Trew for M. P. Price; timber-framed, white-painted brick nogging, except in 1924 porch where unpainted; painted brickwork, Flemish-bond to early C18 section on front; cavity-wall brickwork to 1924 extension; tiled roofs. Wide H-plan, 2-bay centre; 2- bay extension left, extends further bay to right: 2 storeys with attics. Entrance front from 1924: all windows leaded lights. Left, gable of 1924 extension: two 2-light mullion and transom windows, flat rubbed brick arch over: set back to 1924 porch, timber-framed, double, boarded door, cover-beads to joints, decorative hinges, up one stone step, Tudor arch over: side lights. Set back on right to C18 gable: on left 2-light mullion and transom window replacing door in 1924. Slight break formed on right to late C17 or early C18 brickwork, 2-light casement and single light, plain string course over. Two-light casement with cambered brick arch on right, in brick section, main post extending down between 2 gables: on right 2 and 3-light casement windows. Single-storey wall beyond, boarded door, 2 and 3-light casements. First floor, on left 2 mullion and transom windows as on ground floor: plain string course over, gable chimney above. Similar window in porch, diamond-set stone pieces in infill for decorative effect, gable over. Set back to C18 gable, two 2-light mullion and transom windows, plain string over and rendered gable, with 2- light casement. To left diamond-set brick chimney; plain brick stack on ridge to right. To right lower brick section, gabled dormer with 2-light casement, cuts wallplate. To right timber- framed gable, part 2, part 3 panels high, 2-light casement, queen- strut truss in gable: plain brick chimney on ridge to right. Larger gable beyond, 2-panels high framing, 2-light mullion and transom window, gable as left but 3 struts. Long roof slope to right down to single-storey wall: Two-light casement in gabled dormer added 1924. On back single-storey, flat roofed Jacobean- style porch in centre of H, front entrance until 1924. Interior: room to right of older porch 2-panel door, original L- hinges, panelled window seat and shutters, semi-circular headed cupboard to left of fireplace, dummy keystone, semi-circular back, doors missing: dado rail, moulded cornice, chamfered ceiling beam. Roof: timber-framed cross wing 3 bay, angle-strut trusses, no ridge piece: centre may be of 2 periods, queen post truss, square ridge. House of Thomas Pury, who built church (q.v.), M.P. for Gloucester in Civil War period; his coat of arms appears on 2 firebacks in house. (Drawings for alterations, 1924, at Tibberton Court; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO7427921651