Glebe House The Rectory

Glebe House and The Rectory comprise a complex of buildings, originally a rectory with an attached private dwelling and glebe house. The core of the structure dates to the 17th century, with significant alterations and additions in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Rubble-stone walls are faced with ashlar on the principal elevations, and the roofs are slate with stone gable copings. Stone stacks with moulded cornices are positioned at the gable ends, on the inner rear gable, and the outer rear gable.

The west elevation, representing the original 17th-century range re-fronted in the early 18th century, is two and a half storeys high with five windows arranged in a regular pattern. These are sash windows with glazing-bars and crown glass, set within square stone architraves, topped by a moulded stone cornice and low stone parapet. The west gable features two two-light mullion windows with iron casements and lead lights. The south gable end contains a mix of 17th and 19th-century windows.

The south elevation, facing the garden and added in the mid-19th century, is two storeys high with three windows, and a central square bay. Venetian windows with stone sills are present throughout, except in the central square bay, which has hollow-chamfered mullion-and-transom windows, with wood casements and glazing-bars. A mid-19th century doorway is positioned to the left of the square bay, in a "Venetian" style with flanking windows, a two-leaf door, and a fanlight with glazing-bars, the surround having a dropped keystone.

The north range, originally part of the rectory, dates to the 19th century, and has been extensively extended in the early 20th century. Here is a reset 15th-century doorway leading to a cellar, featuring moulded jambs, a depressed-arch head, foliage carving in the spandrels, a label with head-stops, and a plank-and-muntin two-leaf door. The front door to the rectory itself has a moulded stone architrave, a flush-and fielded-panel door, and a fanlight with glazing-bars, dating to the 19th century.

Inside the rectory, a stained-glass window on the staircase contains 16th and 17th-century glass collected by Rev. W.H. Turner in the mid-19th century. This glass includes armorials representing the royal arms, the Lion Rampant of Scotland, German arms, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and the armorials of Christoffel Timpen and Heinrich Engelke. Additional glass depicts labors of the Months (March and May dated 1687), a scene of card playing (late 17th century), and further armorials. The staircase itself has rounded balusters and a ramped handrail, dating to the 18th century, and the passageways contain elliptical arches.

The Glebe House, occupying the east end of the east range, was added in the early 20th century and has two storeys and four windows with hollow-chamfered stone mullions, iron casements, and lead lights. A glazed front door dates to the early 20th century. The rear of the Glebe House, dating to the 19th century, has three windows with sashes and glazing-bars, with coats of arms in a niche at the top right. This range was originally extended further east.