Glebe Cottage

Glebe Cottage is a house that dates largely from the early 17th century to the 18th century, with an earlier core. The ground floor is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble, while the upper part is made of 18th-century brick with blue headers. The original thatched roof has been replaced with a corrugated one. The house is two storeys high and has three bays, featuring centrally opposed doorways behind the stack and flanking stone mullioned windows with ovolo moulding on the ground floor. The upper floor has wood casements with two and three lights. There are gable and axial stacks, and the left gable has a coped top, while the roof is very deep and hipped to the right. The rear wing contains 19th-century casements, and there is one three-light ovolo moulded window in the rear wall, which has a caveto moulded hood-mould. Inside, remnants of a much earlier timber-framed building can be found, including a pair of posts flanking the central fireplace and a pair of cruck blades, which have been sawn off at first-floor level and are assumed to be of base cruck construction. Some interior walls are made of mud and stud. The principal room features a spine beam with an ogee chamfer stop, and the raised roof timbers are reputedly smoke-blackened remnants from the earlier building.