Description

SJ 53 NE
5/21

WHITCHURCH RURAL CP
ASH PARVA
Grove Farmhouse

26.11.82

II
Farmhouse, now disused. Mid to late C16 with late C19 or early C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed with wattle and daub and brick infill, partly pebbledashed. Partly rebuilt and extended in red brick. Plain tile roof.

Framing: diagonal strutting, and close studding beneath windows. T-plan. One framed bay of former hall range with cross wing of two framed bays to east. Two storeys.

North front: integral brick lateral stack to left. Cross wing to left has jettied first floor with moulded and billet-ornamented bressumer and jettied gable with end brackets and moulded cambered tie-beam ; each jetty has coving beneath formed by small curved brackets with plaster between, springing from projecting billet-ornamented rails. Gable with king-post truss and diagonal strutting. First floor C19 three-light wooden casement and ground floor oriel window with C19 four-light wooden casement and C16 moulded cill. Hall range set back to right with first floor C20 centre-hung metal casement and ground floor C20 centre-hung metal casement. One storey brick lean-to addition to right. Left-hand return front with various wooden casements and a first floor 12-paned wooden window. Late C19 or early C20 addition to rear consisting of two parallel ranges.

INTERIOR: ground floor room in cross wing has large chamfered beam with curved run-out stops, and joists. Stud partition dividing hall range from cross wing, recorded has having a four-centred arched doorway (not noted at time of survey- October 1986). Cross wing has chamfered jowl-post (up to ground floor ceiling level) and chamfered ground floor wall plate with broach stops between front and rear rooms. Ground floor front room with C17 panelling. Blocked first-floor two-light window with chamfered wooden million in wall dividing C16 and C19 ranges. One barleysugar baluster from a late C17 or early C18 staircase surviving (unfixed) in the rear range at time of survey. When the house was extended in the late C19 or early C20 the old part became the service range, including a dairy.

Listing NGR: SJ5758039368

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471763

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014