The Grove

The Grove is a farmhouse with a complex building history, dating from the late 16th century and incorporating elements from the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries, with significant alterations and extensions in 1924 by H. F. Trew for M. P. Price. The construction is largely timber-framed with white-painted brick nogging, although the 1924 porch is unpainted. The front elevation features Flemish-bond brickwork in the early 18th-century section. The roof is tiled, with a wide H-plan and two-bay central section, further extended to the left and right.

The entrance front was redesigned in 1924, with leaded light windows throughout. A gable of the 1924 extension on the left features two two-light mullion and transom windows with rubbed brick arches. A recessed timber-framed porch features a boarded double door with decorative hinges, approached by a single stone step and surmounted by a Tudor arch with side lights. To the right of this porch is an 18th-century gable with a two-light mullion and transom window replacing a former door. A further break in the brickwork reveals a late 17th or early 18th-century section with a two-light casement and a single light, with a plain string course above. The main post extends down between two gables. Other windows include two and three-light casements, and a single-storey wall with a boarded door and casements. The first floor mirrors the ground floor's fenestration, with a gable chimney above. The 18th-century gable also includes mullion and transom windows, a plain string course, and a rendered gable with a two-light casement. A diamond-set brick chimney and a plain brick stack are present on the ridge. A dormer with a two-light casement cuts into the wall plate, while a timber-framed gable has queen-strut trusses, and a brick chimney on the ridge. The roof slopes downwards to a single-storey wall, and a dormer was added in 1924. The rear of the house features a flat-roofed, Jacobean-style porch.

Inside, a room to the right of the older porch has an original two-panel door with L-hinges, a panelled window seat and shutters, a semi-circular headed cupboard with a dummy keystone and missing doors, a dado rail, a moulded cornice, and chamfered ceiling beams. The roof of the timber-framed cross wing consists of angle-strut trusses, while the centre may be of two periods with a queen post truss and square ridge. The house was built by Thomas Pury, who also constructed the local church and served as Member of Parliament for Gloucester during the Civil War period; his coat of arms is displayed on two firebacks within the house.