The Grove

The Grove is an 18th-century house to which significant additions were made in 1825 by Thomas Rickman of Birmingham, and further alterations in 1869 by Peddie and Kinnear, as indicated by the rainwater heads. It is a two-storey mansion house built in the Tudor Gothic style, with a basement to the north, a single-storey service range to the northwest, and an inner courtyard open to the west. The entire building is constructed of red ashlar.

The architectural style combines elements from various periods. The 1825 additions feature windows mostly in shallow-recessed panels, while later additions have some windows that are canted, mullioned, or transomed. The south elevation is dominated by a two-stage, massive square entrance tower with a corbelled and crenellated parapet. It has a hood-moulded, pointed doorway with ornamented spandrels and a blind panel above; cusped-headed sidelights sit within ogival margins, and three tall lights are above in round-arched margins, also with cusped heads. Two symmetrical bays with ground floor cross-windows flank the tower. An advanced gable is on the left, and a former conservatory features ashlar mullions and transomes, topped with a ball-finialed parapet with cusped openings, although the roof is now flat. Other elevations are asymmetrical, with advanced and recessed bays, some gabled, and some windows in projecting bays. A segmental-headed west-facing door is present below a modern fire escape. Shaped skews and mostly grouped octagonal flues are visible, and the roof is covered with graded slates.

The gatepiers are square, constructed of polished white granite with projecting caps, and are connected by quadrant walls of bullfaced red ashlar with crenellated coping.

The Grove was originally built for Wellwood Maxwell and was later used as a hospital until 1982. Details are further referenced in the Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 and the New Statistical Account, with a drawing by Peddie & Kinnear held within the National Monuments Record of Scotland.