The Grove

Details

SE 9605-9705 SCAWBY WEST STREET (west side, off)

19/101 The Grove

GV II

Incorrectly marked as Station Road on Ordnance Survey map. House, now residential home. Dated 1890, for Joseph Cliff, iron and steel manufacturer. C20 internal alterations. Rock-faced limestone ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings, entrance porch and stacks, Westmorland slate roof; copper and lead roof to lighting dome. Jacobethan style. Approximately rectangular, double-depth plan north-south range: 2-room south garden front with entrance porch and hall, east and west reception rooms with canted bays, kitchen and services and courtyard to rear. South front: 2 storeys, 3 bays, balanced asymmetrical front. Chamfered plinth, central cross- mullioned window flanked by full-height square bay to right with 4-light mullion and transom window and single lights to sides, and projecting full- height canted bay to left with single transomed lights. First-floor string course, sill string course. 2-light central window, 4-light and single- light windows to bays beneath moulded string courses. All windows with glazing bars and chamfered ashlar mullions in wave-moulded reveals. Coped embattled parapet to canted bay; parapet with carved foliate relief panels to square bay. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter-ends. Coped gables with shaped kneelers surmounted by ball finials. Projecting cornice end stacks with ashlar offsets and diamond-shafted chimneys; corniced axial stack to centre. Right return forms east principal entrance front: 2 storeys, 8 first-floor windows; projecting ground-floor section with canted bay to right. Flight of steps to entrance with ashlar balustrade and square piers with relief panels and moulded caps. Projecting single-storey canted porch has plinth, moulded 4-centred arch with hood-mould, 2-fold panelled door and Gothic overlight in reveal, arrow slits, winged gargoyles to angles, string course, coped embattled parapet with central relief panel bearing carved achievement and ball finial above supported by open scrolls. Single-storey section to right has mullion and transom windows, string courses, coped and embattled parapets with gargoyles. Parapet to left with carved relief panels and datestone. Section to far right, facing courtyard, has twin gables with oculi. Roof to central range hipped to right with wrought-iron ball finial and large lighting dome with splayed base, two 3- light cinquefoiled windows with leaded lights beneath moulded cornice and splayed domed roof with weathervane finial. West front has buttress containing foundation stone inscribed to Mrs Joseph Cliff, May 17 1890, supporting first-floor oriel stair-window with corbelled base, mullioned lights and coped embattled parapet. Interior. Original details include hall with panelled dado, oak staircase with turned balusters, moulded frieze with putti, strapwork and foliate motifs, large ornate fireplace with shafted and corniced chimneypiece with alcove with keyed round arch, relief panels and monogrammed cartouches beneath moulded cornice; large carved oak chimneypiece to north-east room, Adam-style marble chimneypieces to south rooms; moulded plasterwork friezes, ceilings. The largest and one of the most impressive houses built of the local limestone. Joseph Cliff, a prominent Scunthorpe ironmaster, owned the Frodingham Iron Works. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, p 352.

Listing NGR: SE9674705226

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 352

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