Glebe Farmhouse

Glebe Farmhouse is a C16 farmhouse, originally a rectory, with significant additions and alterations from the C18 and C19. It was initially timber-framed, but most of the external walls have been replaced with brick, using both English garden wall bond and Flemish bond patterns, under a slate roof. The house is two storeys with an attic.

The front of the house shows two distinct phases of construction. A slightly projecting gabled wing on the left has English garden wall bond brick replacing the original timber framing. It features a lean-to porch with a plank door displaying strap hinges and nail-head decoration, a C20 cross-window on the ground floor, and a C18 sash window with 4 x 6 panes and exposed sash boxes on the first floor. The gable houses a queen-post truss with rendered infill. A two-storey lean-to adjoins the left side, with a C19 three-light ground floor window and a C20 two-light first floor window. Further to the left is a C19 lean-to with a C20 two-light window. To the right is an C18 two-bay wing, marked by stone quoins and a band of two bricks between the floors. This section has two first-floor windows with 4 x 6 panes, exposed sash boxes, and one matching ground-floor window. A casement window is located on the left-hand ground floor. Two gabled dormer windows light the attic. Chimney stacks are present at the right-hand gable end and along the ridge of the left-hand gabled wing.

The rear of the house has Flemish bond brick on the left and English garden wall bond brick on the right. Gable ends indicate the medieval origins, but the C18 saw an attempt to unify the appearance with ashlar quoins and a continuous band of two bricks between the ground and first floors. Ground-floor windows are largely C19, including two three-light and one two-light cambered-headed windows. The first floor features two sash windows with 4 x 6 panes on the left and two cross windows on the right.

The interior retains several noteworthy features, including a ground-floor room with a panelled ceiling featuring heavily moulded timbers dividing the ceiling into rectangular compartments with plaster infill. This room also contains a large 4-centered archway with blind tracery and a cambered beam resting on semi-octagonal brackets. Another ground-floor room has dado panelling with a chair rail and raised plaster panels separated by wooden posts rising to a wooden cornice. The staircase is of C18 design with square newel posts, a moulded handrail, and turned balusters. A first-floor room contains small-framed walling, cambered ceiling beams (one with traces of naive painting), and two 4-centred doorways that may have been garderobe entrances. The roof structure features chamfered purlins and wind-bracing.