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Grove House — Market Square

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Grove House — Market Square
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Detached nine-bay two-storey house, c.1790, probably originally two separate houses retaining early fenestration with single-bay two-storey return to rear to north-east and five-bay two-storey parallel range along rear elevation to north-east. Renovated, c.1840, with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch added to left ground floor. Extended, c.1930, comprising two-bay two-storey flat-roofed return to rear to north-east. Now in use as nursing home. Gable-ended roof with slate (hipped to return). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to porch behind blocking course. Materials not visible. Flat-roofed to additional return behind parapet wall. Materials not visible. Roughcast walls. Painted. Rendered walls to porch with concrete piers in antis. Painted. Rendered stringcourse with cut-stone coping over to blocking course. Rendered walls to additional return. Rendered coping to parapet wall. Square-headed window openings (paired to central bays; tripartite to bays to right (south-east); round-headed to return). Stone sills (concrete to additional return). 6/6 timber sash windows (1/1 sidelights to tripartite openings). Iron casement windows to additional return. Square-headed opening to porch. Segmental-headed door opening. Timber doorcase. Timber panelled door. Sidelights. Decorative fanlight. Set back from road in grounds shared with Mooreabbey House. Tarmacadam drive along front (south-west) elevation.

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