Chalford Grove

This is a detached house built in the late 17th century, with significant additions and alterations in the early and late 18th century, and a remodelling around 1820. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone, with the front and east side rendered in stucco; ashlar and artificial stone rebuilt chimneys; and has Welsh slate and concrete plain tile roofs. The house is two storeys high, with two parallel rear wings.

The front of the house is symmetrical. It features a central pedimented section with four Tuscan columns creating a recessed ground floor porch. The spaces to either side have small-pane glazing. A wide round arched doorway is topped by a large decorative fanlight and surrounded by Regency architraves, with glazed lights incorporating diagonal glazing bars on either side. The upper floor has four fluted pilasters below the pediment, with a central oval arched recess containing a 12-pane sash window. The outer windows are 12-pane sashes in simple surrounds, with simple architraves over the ground floor openings. A moulded cornice runs along the top, finished with a blocking course.

The west side has a central projecting chimney and a blocked upper floor window to the right. A gable end of a late 18th-century addition to a rear wing has a central projecting chimney flanked by a two-light square-headed ground floor window and a pointed Gothic upper floor casement; two smaller flanking single-light pointed attic casements are also present. The side of a rear range to the left includes a large upper floor 18-pane sash with a moulded architrave and keystone. On the east side, an offset doorway features a fluted frieze and a glazed door with marginal glazing bars to the front range. The rear wing has a flush front with a three-window fenestration, largely comprising tall 15-pane sashes. A central doorway is accompanied by a small round arched window to the left. The rear has two gables built against a bank, both with moulded chimneys.

Inside, the central hall is double-height, with a two-bay upper floor colonnade of Doric columns and a stick balustrade. Two oval arches lead to a curved flying staircase. Reeding is used on the doorcases and incorporated into the complex cornices of the main rooms. A bold cornice to the ceiling of the hall may be a survival from an earlier interior design.