Description

SE 25 NE
4/27
15.3.66

HAMPSTHWAITE
MAIN STREET
(east side)
Grove House and Rowden House
(formerly listed separately)

II

Semi-detached houses, formerly a single dwelling. Dated 1676, greatly
extended and altered in late C19. Coursed squared gritstone, purple slate
roof. 2 storeys. Original house 3 bays with lobby-entrance plan, now 2
houses of 2 bays each: the left bay now part of Rowden House, the remainder
belonging to Grove House. Quoins to right. South front: C20 glazed door
between bays 1 and 2 of the original house with moulded quoined jambs and a
triangular soffit to the lintel which has the inscription, "1676 SB".
Recessed chamfered mullion windows to ground floor of 3, 3 and 4 lights;
flat-faced mullion windows of 1 and 2 lights to first floor. Large stack
with 2 flues to ridge left of entrance, on the division of the 2 properties;
banded end stacks. Rear (to road) C19 fenestration, not of special
interest.

Listing NGR: SE2571758482

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443253

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)