Glebe House

Glebe House is a house, originally the vicarage, dating to around 1800. It was likely remodelled from an earlier 18th-century building, with alterations in the 1950s and repairs in the 1980s. The exterior is roughcast over what is probably local volcanic stone rubble, with a slate roof hidden behind a parapet. Brick chimney shafts rise from the roof. The plan is of a double-depth format, incorporating a central entrance and a rear service courtyard. A single-storey wing at a right angle to the rear contains a kitchen, wash-house, and storage buildings. The rear right side includes a service staircase, a large pantry, and a servants' hall, which was once connected to the dining room by a passage now blocked by doors.

The symmetrical front has three bays, with a cornice featuring moulded brackets below the parapet. Pilasters and a platband are present. A Tuscan doorcase has a broken pediment and panelled reveals, sheltering a six-panel door with flush lower panels and a fanlight with a central roundel and teardrop glazing bars. The ground floor has 8/12-pane sash windows, while the first floor has 16-pane sashes to the left and right, and a 12-pane sash in the centre. The right return has false windows in the left bay, with matching sashes in the other bays. The left return features a 1950s French window at the centre of the ground floor, flanked by false windows, with similar false windows above them and a 16-pane sash in the centre of the first floor. The rear elevation has a recessed 19th-century rear door with glazed upper panels, one 16-pane sash to the old kitchen, and timber casement windows elsewhere. The service courtyard is paved with attractive pitched stone.

The interior retains many 19th-century features, including a decorated cornice in the parlour, a white marble chimney-piece in the dining room, and original joinery such as doors, skirtings, and fitted bookshelves in the study/library. An unusual chimney-piece made of local volcanic trap, featuring two large carved foliage bosses, is located in the library; these may have originated from the parish church. A top-lit stair-hall at the rear of the dining room has a stick baluster staircase with a mahogany handrail and newels, lit by glazing over a central drum. Surviving fittings in some of the service rooms include kitchen cupboards and a fitted buffet in the passage that served the dining room. It is a large, high-quality former vicarage. Separately listed are the surrounding cob walls.