Glebe Cottage

SP7896-7996 HALLATON CHURCHGATE (South West Side)

8/45 Glebe Cottage

GV II

House. Largely early C17 to C18 with earlier core. C17 ground floor of coursed ironstone rubble, C18 brick with blue headers above. Corrugated roof, replacing thatch. Two storeyed, three bays with centrally opposed doorways behind the stack and flanking ovolo moulded stone mullioned windows to ground floor, wood casements of 2 and 3-lights above. Gable and axial stacks. Coped gable to left, roof, which is very deep, hipped to right. C19 casements in rear wing, and one 3-light ovolo moulded window in rear wall, with caveto moulded hood-mould. Remnants of a much earlier timber framed building survive inside, and include one pair of posts flanking the central fireplace, and a pair of cruck blades, sawn off at 1st floor level, and assumed to be of base cruck construction. Some interior walls are mud and stud. Spine beam with ogee chamfer stop in principal room. Raised roof timbers reputedly smoke-blackened survivors from the earlier building.

Listing NGR: SP7858996583