The Grove

The Grove is a house demonstrating two distinct periods of construction. The core of the house is a five-window block facing east, originally two storeys in height. The ground and first-floor windows are exposed-frame sash windows, each with twelve panes, and of the same height. The ground-floor windows have a 2:1 proportion, while those on the first floor are narrower. The east elevation was restored during the 19th-century enlargement of the house. A top storey has been added, with double casement windows aligned with the earlier windows below. The exterior is rendered, with string courses at sill levels, and features a decorative eaves cornice. A slate roof has decorative crest tiles, and the end chimneys are rendered.

A rear extension, topped with a large chimney at its gabled end, dates back to the original house. This extension was heightened at the time of the 19th-century enlargement.

The main 19th-century addition to the north was designed by Seddon. This two-storey block is rendered, with a steeply pitched slate roof. A canted link connects it to the older block, and it has an octagonal end on the right. The north-facing facade has three bays, with a narrower central bay featuring decorative projecting bargeboards and collars to the gables. There are chimneys on the north and west elevations, with diagonally-set paired stacks in red brick. The design is Gothic, exhibiting meticulous attention to detail and a deliberate softening of the visual line between the wall and roof. This is achieved through irregular fenestration grouped into three through-eaves dormer gables with short sections of projecting eaves in between. The left gable is flanked by an axial chimney. The windows are sash windows with small panes in the top sashes and larger panes in the lower sashes. The upper sills sit on a string course. The lower sashes of the ground-floor windows are plate glass. In the upper storey, a pair of unequal windows on the left bay is balanced by a mullioned double-width window on the right. On the ground floor, a porch and a small window on the left are balanced by a pair of windows on the right. Decorative segmental arches feature over the windows, including larger arches over the upper windows. The main entrance is at the left, featuring a white-painted, partly glazed door within an open timber porch. The rafters of the main roof, front gables, and porch are visibly sprocketted or curved near the foot.

Inside, a spacious entrance hall displays good joinery where the Seddon extension meets the original structure. The original part of the house has a panelled room at the north end.