Glebe Farmhouse

Glebe Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, likely built using some earlier materials. It was significantly altered in the late 18th century with a new front facade and roof, and further updated with windows in the mid-19th century.

The farmhouse is primarily constructed of pinkish-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern on the front facade, with the remainder using an English garden wall bond. It has a renewed tile roof and some visible timber framing within. It’s a T-shaped building with a central hallway.

The exterior is two storeys high with three windows on the first floor. A central four-panel door is set into a flight of steps and flanked by tripartite casement windows with wooden mullions, transoms, and glazing bars. The first floor features similar tripartite windows, a central casement window, all with wooden mullions and glazing bars. Chimneys with cornices are at the ends of the building.

Inside, there are three broadly chamfered beams in two main ground-floor rooms and the kitchen. Those in the front rooms have ogee stops at one end, and mortices for ceiling joists are packed. An inglenook fireplace is in the room on the right. The farmhouse contains four-panel doors, with two fielded panels and L-hinges on doors to three bedrooms. Plank doors feature in the kitchen and a room above. A stud wall divides two bedrooms in the rear wing.

The roof has a truss with principals crossing at the apex to support a ridge purlin, visible on the rear gable. The purlin is believed to have originally been covered in bark where it joins the main house. The rear range is thought to retain 17th-century collars. Reused purlins are believed to remain in the main roof, with some rafters having been replaced.