Glebe Farmhouse

Glebe Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse originally built as a vicarage for Barrow. A later 19th-century extension was added to the rear. The farmhouse is constructed of orange-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stuccoed window arches. Tarred brick is visible on the right return, and rendered brick on the left return. It has a pantile roof.

The building is L-shaped, consisting of a two-room central entrance hall facing the front, with an original outshut to the rear right that now contains the staircase. A later two-storey single-room wing is located at the rear left, alongside a later single-storey kitchen extension. The front elevation is two storeys high and three bays wide, exhibiting a symmetrical design. The central entrance features a decorative wooden doorcase with panelled pilasters, fluted brackets supporting ribbed dosserets, a boldly-ribbed frieze, and an ornate modillioned cornice and hood. A 20th-century part-glazed panelled door is set within a panelled reveal, underneath a moulded cornice and plain overlight. Slightly recessed, segmental-headed 12-pane sash windows are present on the ground floor, with painted stone sills and stuccoed segmental arches above. The first floor has similar sash windows in the side bays, beneath shallower arches, and a full painted dummy window in the central bay. A moulded wooden eaves board and a cast iron gutter with lion's-head brackets are also present. The raised gables have tumbled-in brickwork. End stacks are visible, with that on the right being shortened. A wrought iron letter 'C' is affixed to the left gable. Sash windows with glazing bars are found at the rear.

Inside, a round-arched opening leads to the stairhall, which features panelled pilasters. The open-well staircase has slender column balusters and a corniced handrail. Round-arched alcoves flank the chimney on the ground-floor right. Other interior details include moulded and fielded six-panelled doors in architraves, moulded skirting boards, and panelled shuttered sash windows to the front rooms. Glebe Farmhouse represents a good example of a local Georgian pattern book building, notable for distinctive features such as the doorcase, which is unique, and the arched sash windows, of which there are only two known examples in the district’s villages.