Glebe House

Glebe House is a late 17th and early 18th century farmhouse, now a house, located on the north side of Church Street, Cheverell Magna. The building is constructed of diaper brick with raised stone quoins and dressings, and has a tiled roof. It is two storeys high, with a cellar and attics, and is five bays wide. The front elevation is approximately symmetrical, featuring a 20th-century hardwood door with a flat canopy supported by brackets. A moulded mid-wall string runs along the elevation. The ground floor has a three-light cyma moulded mullioned window with a central iron casement to the left, followed by a two-light window to the right, which has a keystone in gauged arches. Single-light windows flank the entrance door, with the one to the left now removed. Above, there are reserve chamfered cross windows with leaded lights. The end bays have narrow vertical oval lights with keyed moulded surrounds. A central window above the door is a 18th-century raised and moulded two-light window. Gable stacks are present. A 20th-century three-bay extension to the left is now a separate dwelling and contains two dormer windows. Inside, the large entrance hall features a staircase at the rear and 18th-century panelling. The drawing room to the right has a spine beam with reserved ovolo moulding and bar stops, alongside a stone fireplace. There is a cellar beneath the house. A fireplace in a room to the left has been blocked, and its beam boxed. An upper floor moulded stone fireplace is situated in the bedroom above the drawing room, with closets at each end featuring oval windows. The stair handrail dates to circa 1700. The roof, originally five bays, was probably reconstructed in the early 19th century. A single-bay, single-storey wing to the left of the original building’s rear bay was heightened to two storeys in the early 20th century. A second 19th-century wing is located behind the main hall.