Hygrove House

Hygrove House is an early 18th-century house, with early 19th-century additions and alterations carried out in the mid and late 20th century. The front is of rendered brick, finished to resemble ashlar, while the right return is of English bond brickwork and the rear is of Flemish bond. The front of the wings uses a heading bond. The roof is covered in asbestos slate.

The house has a three-room, three-storey central block, with single-bay, two-storey wings to either side, each wing being two rooms deep. A further room projects from the right wing at the rear. The front of the house is symmetrical, featuring large, semi-circular bows on either side of the central block. The entrance doorway is up three stone steps with nosings, and has a half-glazed door with two flush panels below, and a semi-circular fanlight above. Unfluted Ionic half columns are positioned on either side of the door, with similar pilasters extending beyond, supporting a cornice. A rusticated plinth runs beneath the bows, and there are three equally-spaced sash windows in each bow. The first floor has three sash windows in each bow, with sills extending as a plain string course. A sash window with a moulded architrave and pediment sits above the door, in a recessed area. The second floor has three shorter sash windows in each bow, with a single sash window in the centre; the recessed area above the door has a segmental head. A dentil cornice runs along the top of the front, topped by a plain parapet with a recess above each window, finished with plain stone coping. The hipped roof has two longitudinal valleys, and external chimneys on the returns.

The left wing is set back and has a two-light window added in the late 20th century, set within a cambered brick arch on the first floor; a pilaster marks the corner. The further wing on the right is also set back and features a mid-20th century two-light window, with a cambered brick arch on the ground floor, and a pilaster marking the corner. The first floor has a nine-pane sash window, with the upper sash smaller, and a cambered head and rubbed brick arch.

Inside, the ground and first floors have six-panel doors, which are fielded in the corridor, with a planted moulding to the rooms. Panelled shutters are found on the front of the ground and first floors. The dogleg staircase has a moulded string, turned newels and balusters, is ramped, and has a moulded handrail. A large rear room on the ground floor has a moulded plaster ceiling in a Rococo style with a modillion cornice, a dado rail and panelled shutters. The front ground floor rooms have a moulded cornice, and the top floor has two-panel doors with 'L' hinges. The roof structure includes collar and tie beam trusses, a pair of purlins and a square ridge. Bow windows and a rear verandah were added in the 19th century; the verandah was probably removed in the mid-20th century.