Stocklinch Grove

Stocklinch Grove is a detached house dated 1653, with alterations made in the early 18th century. It was built for Hugh Brome and features ham stone that is cut and squared, with ashlar dressings. The house has a triple-angle clay tiled roof between coped gables and brick and stone slab chimney stacks. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has four bays.

The exterior includes hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses, featuring individual labels, with three-light windows above and four-light windows below, which have rectangular leaded glass in 20th-century casement inserts. To the right of the fourth bay, there is a small triangular arched stairlight. The third bay has a projecting porch with an ovolo-mould cambered-arched doorway under a square label. Above this doorway, in a coped gable topped with a cube and ball finial, is a sundial and a plaque with an ovolo mould frame. The inner door is made of wide boards in a heavy wave-mould frame, set under a timber lintel.

The interior has a through passage plan, with an outshut and a small single-storey extension at the rear. It features some overlap plank partitions and wattle and daub on a timber frame. There are several 17th-century two-panel doors, as well as some early 18th-century bolection mould two-panel doors. The house has large gable fireplaces, with the eastern fireplace featuring a large timber beam adorned with ornamental plasterwork, while the western fireplace has a stone cambered arched design and retains remnants of a timber newel stair in the cupboard beside it. The ceiling beams are chamfered, and the west room has a six-panel ceiling. A 20th-century main staircase is located in the rear lean-to.

In the north-west corner, there is an added room in an outhouse dating from around 1720 to 1740, which includes fielded wall panelling, a heavy timber cornice, and two arched recesses flanking a simple fireplace, similar in style to the work of Nathaniel Ireson of Wincanton. On the first floor, there are more 17th and 18th-century partitions, and the main west bedroom features a stone fireplace, an early 18th-century wall safe with a wooden door in the south wall, and an ornamental plaster frieze with a vine pattern around the perimeter and on the cross beams. The roof consists of collar-beam trusses, but the roof space has not been inspected.