HORSMONDEN GROVEHURST ROAD TQ 7040-7140 (east side) 7/43 Grovehurst 20.10.54 GV II* House. C15 altered and extended C16 and c.1641. Timber framed and rendered with some exposed framing with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Hall house with cross wing origin. Two storeys on plinth with jettied cross wing projecting at right with close studded frame on first floor. Left hand section a regular composition of 2 gables jettied at first floor and gable levels, with moulded bresummers, bargeboards and pendants, with central 2 storey stair projection, also with moulded bargeboards and pendant: gable dated I A 1641 (refering to John Austen). Stack clusters to centre left (behind the porch) and to right in the cross wing. Three light leaded wooden casement to left on first floor with 4 light mullioned and transomed window to porch, central 5 light transomed oriel and 3 light transomed window to right; fenestration pattern repeated on ground floor. The porch and cross wing both with lean-to added porches on left flanks, with turned baluster side screens and rib and stud doors. Catslide outshot to right return, and left return with exposed small panel frame with arched door opening, now blocked, to upper left. Rear with catslide outshot and single storey extensions with moulded stack. Interior: (recorded) crown post roofs in both main range and cross wing. Late C16 panelling and carved overmantel in one room and mid C17 staircase in stair projection (see B.O.E. Kent,I, p.335, Igglesden, 17, pp.52-4). A manorial seat giving its name to the Grofhurst family (brasses in Horsmonden church); by C17 part of the Austen family's extensive possessions in Horsmonden. Listing NGR: TQ7160540722