Glebe Cottage

SJ 50 NE WROXETER C.P. WROXETER

6/158 Glebe Cottage -

• II

Cottage. Probably C15 or C16 with C18 and C20 additions, and late C19 partial remodelling. Timber framed of cruck construction, painted brick nogging; eaves raised and refaced in red brick to front and right, slate roofs. 2 framed bays, possibly fragment of larger house; later additions to left and at rear. One storey and attic and 2 storeys. Central brick ridge stack and truncated external lateral brick stack to left-hand addition. Framing: square panels to rear. 2-window front; C19 two-light wooden casements, segmental-headed to ground floor. C18 addition set back to left with ground-floor C20 casement to front. Right-hand return front has half- glazed door with lean-to brick porch. Part of cruck truss exposed in left- hand gable end. Further entrance and one-storey C20 addition at rear. Interior: one full cruck truss in left-hand end wall (Alcock apex type F3), single purlins; ground-floor room to right has chamfered spine beam with ogee-stops, wide joists, and large open fireplace has chamfered lintel with ogee stops; ground-floor room to left has probably late C17 or C18 paired ceiling beams; probably C16 or C17 newel staircase to rear of stack. The cottage is possibly a fragment of a former open hall house, the right-hand bay being floored and the first-floor in the left-hand bay being a later insertion in part of a former 2-bay hall, now demolished beyond the former central cruck truss. Alcock, Pp.96 and 145.

Listing NGR: SJ5639608146