Glebe House

CREDITON

SS834000 CHURCH STREET 672-1/6/15 (East side) 11/10/72 Glebe House (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET The Vicarage)

GV II

House, formerly the vicarage. Circa 1800, possibly a remodelling of an C18 house; some alterations of the 1950s, 1980s repair. Roughcast, probably local volcanic stone rubble; slate roof behind parapet; stacks with brick shafts. Plan: Double-depth plan with central entry and service courtyard to rear. Kitchen to rear left with wash-house and storage buildings in a single storey wing at right angles to the rear. Rear right contains a service stair, large pantry and a servants' hall, which was connnected to the dining room by a passage under the main stair, doors now blocked. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a cornice with moulded brackets below the parapet. Cemented left and right plain pilasters and first floor platband. Tuscan doorcase with a broken pediment and panelled reveals. 6-panel door, the lower panels flush, below a fanlight with a central roundel and teardrop glazing bars. Early C19 windows, 8/12-pane sashes to the ground floor; 16-pane sashes first floor left and right, 12-pane sash in the centre. The 4-bay right return has false windows in the left hand bay, the other bays have sashes matching those on the front. The left return has a 1950s French window to ground floor centre, flanked by false windows; similar false windows to the first floor above them and an early C19 16-pane sash in the centre. The rear elevation has a central recessed C19 rear door, the upper panels glazed; one 16-pane sash lighting the old kitchen, the other windows are timber casements. The service courtyard has attractive pitched stone paving. Interior: Rich in C19 fittings: decorated cornice in parlour to left;white marble chimney-piece to dining room on right.Joinery includes doors, skirtings and fitted bookshelves in the study/library. The library to rear of parlour has an unusual local volcanic trap chimney-piece which includes 2 massive carved foliage bosses below the shelf - these may have originated from the parish church. Top-lit stair-hall to rear of dining room: stick baluster stair with mahogany handrail and mahogany newels to the landing, top-lit by glazing over a central drum. Unusually, some of the service rooms fittings also survive, kitchen cupboards and also a fitted buffet in the passage which serviced the dining room. A good quality, large-scale former vicarage. Surrounding cob walls (q.v.) are separately listed.

Listing NGR: SS8362200382