Glibes Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Probably dating from the 17th century, with alterations in the 18th century. Constructed of dry stone or thin coursed rubble with stone slate and asbestos roofs. The farmhouse is attached to a barn (listed separately), a stack, a two-cell service area, a cart shed, and a stable. It has one storey and an attic, with two windows. The ground floor has two 19th-century six-paned casement windows on the left side, and a late 19th-century twelve-paned sash window to the right of the entrance. Above each casement is an early 19th-century four-paned casement, each within a raking dormer. The entrance is through a 1900 planked porch and a late 19th-century ledged door; a second entrance is through a 18th-century ledged door into a lobby adjacent to the barn. To the right of the farmhouse, attached, is a former wash house and brew house, a cart shed, and a stable. The stable has a small two-light window, and the others each have an evenly spaced late 18th to early 19th-century ledged door. Inside, the principal room has a plank and muntin screen to the left, a bacon cratch attached to closely set joists above, and a late 19th-century cast iron range to the right. A 19th-century straight staircase rises from the rear corridor of the left cell, which is defined by a post-and-rail partition. To the right of the hearth, through a chamfered doorway, a front corridor leads past the main entrance, providing access to the kitchen and dairy. These three spaces are separated by a longitudinal and transverse plank and muntin screen. The corridor leads into the wash house and brew house, which contain a 19th-century bread oven to the rear left and a copper to the rear right. In the right-hand wall is a diamond-mullioned four-light window overlooking the cart shed and a side door to the stable, which contains two loose boxes. The rear upper floor of the kitchen and dairy has a diamond-mullioned window within a half-dormer, and the roof trusses of this area have iron straps on their A-frame trusses. The building and its attachments form an exceptionally good example of an early farmhouse that has barely changed for over a century.