Description

AVETON GIFFORD A379
SX 65 SE
(off north side)
1/11
Grove Park Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Early C19. Rendered rubble, exposed to back wall, asbestos-cement
slate roof. A symmetrical central stair hall villa with wings, presented as a
folly or eye-catcher to the road to the south. Two-storey 3-window centre,
12-pane plus margin bar sashes, low wings with crenellations have sash with
horizontal bar, under stopped drips. Central crenellated porch with glazed door
and pointed fanlight on 4 granite steps Hipped roof to box eaves, large eaves
stack each side; lofty brick shaft on external stack to low right wing. Back
has 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements and a central pent-roofed extension with
plank door; large 3-light raking dormer. Interior: stick stair, contemporary
doors with pointed heads to panels, right room has plaster ceiling rose, moulded
cornices. Inner front door to pointed arch and with cusping. A handsome
building with some architectural pretension, practically unaltered.

Listing NGR: SX6828850342

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401946

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)