Glebe Cottage

Glebe Cottage is a cottage, originally a church house, dating to the 17th century, with renovations carried out around 1938. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof. The building has an L-shape, with the main two-room block facing southwest. A rear kitchen/service wing is set at right angles behind the hall, which is to the right (southeast) of the front room. There are axial stacks serving back-to-back fireplaces in the front block and another axial stack in the rear block. A newel stair projects to the rear of the hall at the angle of the two wings. The cottage is two storeys high, with a balanced but not symmetrical front, featuring two windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor. Most windows are circa 1938 casements with small rectangular panes of leaded glass and narrow margin panes, with one casement on the left end retaining glazing bars. A thatched gable sits over the left first-floor window, and a thatched eyebrow over the right window. A 20th-century door is located to the left room, protected by a gabled porch with a thatched roof and open-framed sides on low rubble footings. A stone buttress to the right likely obscures a 17th-century lobby entrance. The roof is gable-ended on the left and hipped on the right. The exterior of the crosswing has similar circa 1938 casements with leaded glass. Inside, the hall on the right of the front block features a 17th-century crossbeam with a chamfer and straight cut stops. A section of the beam against the chimney breast is chamfered with scroll stops, and the rubble fireplace lintel is also soffit-chamfered with scroll stops. A possible 18th-century cupboard is situated in the rear wall, alongside a 17th-century stair door; it has an oak plank and ledge door with strap hinges set in a slightly chamfered frame. The stone newel stair has oak treads. The left front room contains a blocked fireplace and a replacement crossbeam. The rear block room has an 18th-century chamfered crossbeam and runout stopped, along with a rubble fireplace, a chamfered and worn oak lintel with step stops. Both roofs have A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars, though the scantling is smaller in the possibly later rear wing.