Grove Farm, Box, Wiltshire, SN13 (Grade II)

ST 86 NW BOX BOX HILL

2/33 Nos. 1 and 2 London Terrace (Grove Farm)

Pair of houses, early C18, extended, ashlar fronted and rubble stone with stone tiled roof. Coped gables and end wall stacks to main range and rear wall stack to No 1. Two storeys. No 2, to right, is original range with first floor 2-light flush chamfered mullion window to left and paired 3 and 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows to right. Ground floor 2-light flush chamfered window, door in stone slab porch with flat hood and to right, door with blank arch over and stone slab porch with flat hood and moulded heads to piers. To right, paired 2-light flush cyma- moulded mullion windows and dripstone over. Right hand addition, with coped gable and end wall stack has rosette datestone MW 1789 on end wall and front 2-window range. Upper C20 window over door in stone slab porch with rounded piers and flat hood. To right C20 window replacing 2-light flush cyma moulded window and 2-light flush cyma moulded window above. At left end of main front, No 1, C19 rubble stone with door and window to left. To right of door on original corner stone is inscribed ‘London Place’. Behind rear wall stack, rear wing, originally with 2-light window and hoodmould to each floor. Ovolo-moulded frame survives to upper window, hoodmould only to lower window. This section indicates that front of No 1 is rebuild of early C18 house.