Glebe Farmhouse

Glebe Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 16th century. It has been altered in the 17th century and extended in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features plastered rubble walls that may include some cob, and it has a thatched roof with a gable at the right end and a hipped roof at the left end and wing. There is a large rendered rubble lateral stack with a 20th-century brick shaft at both the front and rear, a similar smaller stack at the right-hand end, and a brick stack between the main range and the wing.

The original plan was likely a three-room-and-through passage layout, with the lower end to the right, although the passage has since been removed. The lower end and hall were originally open to the roof and heated by a central hearth fire. The inner room has always been floored and heated by a fireplace on its rear wall. The front lateral stack for the hall and the end fireplace for the inner room were added in the 17th century when this part of the house was raised to two storeys. An 18th-century barn was added to the left-hand end, which was converted in the 20th century and extended with a wing at the front.

The exterior is two storeys high and features an asymmetrical four-window front with late 20th-century PVC casements, except for an earlier 20th-century small-paned three-light casement on the right side of the first floor. The two small bay windows on the ground floor to the right of centre were previously porches. There are 20th-century stable-type doors at both the left and right ends. The 20th-century wing projecting from the left-hand end has small-paned casements.

Inside, there is probably a 16th-century fireplace in the main left-hand rooms, featuring a heavy chamfered slate lintel resting on three tiers of curved stone corbels, with the top corbel having an integral lamp bracket. The ceiling beams have been replaced, and other fireplaces have been altered. The smoke-blackened roof remains over at least the right-hand end, consisting of substantial straight principals with a morticed apex, threaded purlins, and collars that are halved and dovetailed in.