Glenside

Glenside is a house that has more recently been used as a café. It dates from the early 16th century, with a stack and floor inserted and a reroofing that took place in the early 17th century. The building has been partly rebuilt and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with some red brick and is plastered. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with pantiles. Originally, it was a small two-bay open hall with a storeyed lower bay facing the road, and a stack inserted in the cross passage, while the presumed storeyed upper bay has been demolished. The house has two storeys.

The front gable end includes 20th-century openings, featuring a door and a shop window, along with 20th-century casements on the left return made of red brick, and a lobby entrance in the original cross passage position. There are French windows towards the front. Centrally located on the front is an axial ridge stack with three conjoined diagonally set shafts. Attached to the rear is a one-storey outbuilding made of clay lump and timber framing.

Inside, much of the frame is concealed, but there is an inserted stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and a stop-chamfered fireplace bressumer in the hall. Some studding is exposed, along with large arched braces to sharply cambered tie beams and reverse curved arched braces in a closed truss. The wallplates at the rear show edge halved scarf joints, suggesting there may have been a further bay, and the roof features 17th-century side purlins.