Glebe Farmhouse

Glebe Farmhouse is a rectory, later used as a farmhouse, dating to approximately the late 17th century, with possible earlier origins. The house is constructed of granite rubble walls, rendered to the front and ends, and has scantle slate roofs with gable ends. Some original 17th-century hand-made crested clay ridge tiles remain. Brick chimneys are at the gable ends, with a later axial chimney rendered over a large external stack to the right.

The original plan consisted of three rooms along the front, a stair wing, a left-hand rear wing, and a cross passage between the left-hand room (now a parlour) and the middle room (originally an unheated service room). The stair hall is located in the wing behind the middle room, and the right-hand room is now the kitchen. Additional rear wings and a lean-to serve as unheated service rooms. A 1679 Glebe Terrier lists a hall, buttery, dairy, three chambers, and a study, reflecting a similar layout to the present accommodation.

The front facade is a regular four-window arrangement. Most windows are 19th-century 12-pane sashes, later replaced with horns, except for a single 16-pane sash on the ground floor of the left-hand window. The doorway, with a four-panel top-glazed door, is centrally located below the second window from the left. A chamfered granite window is set low in the rear of the stair wing, providing light to the space underneath the first landing. The stair window has marginal panes.

The interior contains a late 17th/early 18th-century open-well staircase with a closed moulded string, column-turned balusters (some inverted), a complex moulded handrail, and ball finials over the newels. Original doors, including at least one 18th-century two-panel door, original floors, the roof structure, and the original plan remain intact. The farmhouse was little altered after the construction of a new vicarage at a different site in 1888.