Glebe Cottage

REDGRAVE THE STREET (SOUTH BEST TM 0477 SIDE) 5/106 Glebe Cottage - GV II House, latterly 3 dwellings. Late C15 or early C16, floor and stack inserted late C16, raised and extended mid to late C17, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered; some red brick. Thatched roofs. Early 4 bays are now a service cross range to right, originally a small open hall of 2 bays with a storeyed lower bay to road and a 'croglofft' in most of upper bay which has been partially dismantled; 5 bay C17 addition to left at right angles to form an L on plan. All 2 storeys and attic. Entrance to right of later range with a recessed boarded door, 1 and 2-light glazing bar casements, ground floor hoodboards, a fire insurance marker. To right gable front of original lower bay has 2-light casements, exposed C17 plates and purlins. Right return has 3 bays of casements with an axial ridge stack inserted in former cross passage. To rear a pantiled lean-to is surviving part of upper. bay. Left gable end is colourwashed brick with 2 offsets and an internal stack, rebuilt cap. Later range has a pantiled lean-to outshut to rear. Attached to rear left C19 flint and brick rendered outbuildings. Interior: early range has close studding, former open truss posts have semi-octagonal shafts, mortices for arched braces, an inserted stop chamfered cross axial binding beam; mortices for arched braces from intermediate posts to a stop chamfered cross axial binding beam supporting 'croglofft' in upper bay, grooves for a lower storey door, mortices for an upper storey partition; stop chamfered mid-rails in lower bay. Eaves lowered in reroofing. C17 range has indented stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, stop chamfered storey posts and mid-rails; cambered collars to side purlin roofs.

Listing NGR: TM0454077821