Building record 1211700000 - TOP MEADOW, 1 GROVE RD

Grade II. 1912 by W F C Holden, added to on the left in 1922 and at the rear (the library) in 1935. The home of G K Chesterton, 1922-36. Red brick; machine tile roof. One storey plus attic. Two chimneys with paired stacks placed diagonally on square bases. The stack facing the road stands above and behind a gabled bay with flanking hipped roofs that, inside, are seen to provide a fireplace. Curved dormer windows with leaded lights either side of the chimney make of the stack an asymmetrical feature. To the right, the door and a dormer window with hipped roof. The gabled addition of 1922 is of decidedly less architectural interest: brick in its ground floor, imitation timber framing in its first-floor and attic. The library is likewise of less architectural interest (B1).