Glebe House

Glebe House is a detached house located on the east side of Fore Street in Thorncombe. It dates from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and later. The building features rubble walls that are rendered, with stone brick quoins on the northeast side. It has slate roofs with stone gable copings on both the southwest and northeast sides. The house has an L-shaped plan and a lean-to roof over the current front passage on the north side.

The south elevation, which is the rear, has two storeys and a five-window range that includes a mix of casements and sashes. Notably, there is an 18th-century bayed-out room on the ground floor with sash windows and leaded quarries on the side windows. The east elevation, also at the rear, has two storeys and features a good early 17th-century mullion window with hollow chamfers and a sunk quadrant surround made of Ham stone. It retains original casements with square leaded lights and opaque glass.

Inside, there is a re-set 16th-century stone fireplace with a depressed Tudor arch set within a square head. A four-light hollow-chamfered mullion window has been blocked in the front passage wall. The house also contains stained glass, including a roundel in the front-passage window made of yellow and blue glass, dated 1850 and inscribed "Edwardus Denison Sarum Apiscopus." Additionally, there is a three-light Victorian 'perpendicular' window in the west wall, designed as a commemorative church window for Admiral Hood, who is thought to have died in the Crimean War. This window is dated 1855 and features a roundel with the inscription "Empere VR 1855 Napolean III." In the garden, located 30 meters north of the house, there are fragments of late medieval window tracery from the old church.