Glebe House

SW 84 SE 4/15

RUAN LANIHORNE RUAN LANIHORNE Glebe House,

GV II

Parsonage house (now private house), C17 or earlier with some late C18 and C20 rebuilding. Slatestone with concrete pantile gable roof and lateral brick and stone stacks. 3 room plan with single storey wing to front. 2 storeys. Irregular 6 window front. Ground floor is window, French window, window, French windows, wing and blind to right of wing. Left 2 bays have cambered brick arches and projecting keystones. Windows are 18- and 12-pane sashes. Brick fireplace blocked to left of brick lateral stack showing wing has been reduced. Buttress to far right may be evidence for further wing no longer existing. Rear has external stone lateral stack and projection which may be lateral chimney breast. Interior has wide hearth and bread oven, bowtell moulded beams and straight flight stair with panelled dado (probably early C18). This was the home of historian and writer the Rev.John Whitaker from 1777 until his death in 1808. In his The History of Ruan Lanihorne he describes the house, its alterations and previous incumbents in great detail. Henry Dell, vicar from 1643, built a room to the south described thus: 'It is one of the best rooms in any parsonage-house of the whole county, for the largeness, the loftiness and the regularity of it. It has a ceiling handsomely coved, and is 19 feet by 18 feet 6 inches.....'. Extracts from The History of Ruan Lanihorne by the Rev. John Whitaker (1784), Edited by H L Douch, Journal of Royal Institution of Cornwall

Listing NGR: SW8944542004