The Gro

The Gro is a two-storey house with an attic, primarily constructed of red brick and facing south. The front features a symmetrical arrangement of three windows, with mostly irregular bonding. The building was heightened in the 19th century using English Garden Wall bond and has a slate roof with wide boxed eaves and large gabled dormers. It includes a plinth, a plat-band over the ground storey, and red brick end chimney stacks with projecting breasts, which were rebuilt in the 19th century on the right gable end. The main windows are small-pane timber casements with cambered heads and brick voussoirs, while the attic has simple small-pane casements. The central entrance has a six-panel door with an inscribed datestone above, flanked by blocked narrow windows, and features a later gabled timber porch with an apex finial.

The right gable end wall is made of brickwork, while the left side is in quasi-rubble masonry. There are two small blocked windows on the right and a low extension on the east side of the rear elevation. The rear has three windows in quasi-rubble masonry with small square-headed designs, one of which has been replaced on the ground floor, and a central doorway that has been blocked. There is also a 20th-century single-storey rear extension with an end chimney.

Although not inspected during the resurvey, it was noted in 1992 that the house retains square-framed timber partitions from the original early 18th-century structure. Late Georgian alterations included the addition of six-panel doors, and more recently, quarry tiled floors were installed. The entrance leads into a central stairwell, with the main room on the right featuring a stop-chamfered cross beam and a modernised fireplace. The left side originally had two rooms, with an angled chimney for the front parlour and no heating in the rear service room. The head beam of the partition suggests there was an 'in and out' partition between these two rooms. The staircase has a modern balustrade, and the upstairs beams are boxed in, with the attic ceiling at collar level.