Grove House and Rowden House

GROVE HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150415
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1966
List Entry Name:
Grove House and Rowden House
Statutory Address:
GROVE HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1150415
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
18-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Grove House and Rowden House
Statutory Address 1:
GROVE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 2:
ROWDEN HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GROVE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:
ROWDEN HOUSE, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hampsthwaite
National Grid Reference:
SE2571758482

Details

SE 25 NE
4/27
15.3.66

HAMPSTHWAITE
MAIN STREET
(east side)
Grove House and Rowden House
(formerly listed separately)

II

Semi-detached houses, formerly a single dwelling. Dated 1676, greatly
extended and altered in late C19. Coursed squared gritstone, purple slate
roof. 2 storeys. Original house 3 bays with lobby-entrance plan, now 2
houses of 2 bays each: the left bay now part of Rowden House, the remainder
belonging to Grove House. Quoins to right. South front: C20 glazed door
between bays 1 and 2 of the original house with moulded quoined jambs and a
triangular soffit to the lintel which has the inscription, "1676 SB".
Recessed chamfered mullion windows to ground floor of 3, 3 and 4 lights;
flat-faced mullion windows of 1 and 2 lights to first floor. Large stack
with 2 flues to ridge left of entrance, on the division of the 2 properties;
banded end stacks. Rear (to road) C19 fenestration, not of special
interest.

Listing NGR: SE2571758482

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
331531
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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