NHER 11600 (Building record) - Grove House

Grove House.

November 1951. Listed, Grade II.
"Late 16th century with 18th- and late 19th-century alterations. Flint with brick dressings. Black-glazed pantile roof with coped gable ends; two storeys and attic. Six windows west range with cross wing on east end along Tunn Street. West part has late 19th-century corbelled brick eaves and six late 19th-century moulded mullion/transom windows in rendered architraves, left hand late 19th-century splayed bay and right hand late 19th-century porch...Three good late 17th-/18th-century pedimented dormers with two-light casements with leaded panes. Large brick chimney stack at west end with three octagonal shafts with moulded bases. Two downpipes with rainwater heads dated "IL 1724". Right hand (east) cross wing, gable end projecting, two windows and one attic window, similar late 19th-century moulded mullion/transom casements. Various irregularly arranged casements on east side facing Tunn Street."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 21 December 2023.

September 1976. Visit.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU).
Very fine early 17th-century house, 'T'-shaped. Six bays in main wing, octagonal chimneys. East wall against Tunn Street (head of 'T') contains several windows blocked with brick - this wall is flint whereas facade is plastered. 19th-century bay window and some window surrounds, probably porch also - in form of pedimented arch - but this could just be renewal. West end of house shows signs of subsidence.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 30 September 1976. Information from record card (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 December 2023.

An extensive garden wall associated with Grove House was separately listed Grade II in 1979. This is now recorded as NHER 67877.
P. Watkins (HES), 21 December 2023.

August 1983. Field Observation.
Second visit by E. Rose (NAU).
On second visit, the windows in the Tunn Street wall examined more closely. From north to south upper floor has rectangular blocked, small blocked, recent window cutting a 'long-low' a second similar but by a blocked rectangular. On the ground floor from south, two 'long-lows' (the second blocked in two periods of brickwork) three recent and a doorway,
and a blocked small window. Suggests early 17th-century windows cut by late 17th/18th century, all altered in 19th century. The octagonal chimneys are 19th century.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 22 August 1983. Information from record card (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 December 2023.

May 1988. Field Observation.
At north end Tunn Street frontage (perhaps not same property) windows surrounds have blocks of reused limestone and one block ironbound conglomerate.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 18 May 1988. Information from record card (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 December 2023.

For comments on former gardens see (S3).