Glebe House The Old Glebe

A pair of houses, originally the rectory, dating from the early to mid 17th century with an early 19th-century addition. The buildings are constructed of plastered cob and rubble walls, with a gable-ended slate roof to The Old Glebe and a hipped roof to Glebe House. The Old Glebe features a projecting plastered rubble stack at the front and another at its left gable end. Glebe House has three rendered brick stacks, one at its right end, one at the end of the rear wing, and a lateral one at the front.

Originally a single dwelling, the plan now comprises two distinct parts, divided but formerly united. The Old Glebe, on the right-hand side, is the older part, featuring a two-room plan with a through-passage; the right-hand room is heated by a front lateral stack and the left-hand room by a gable-end stack. Glebe House represents the early 19th-century addition, extending to the rear of The Old Glebe and forming a new front block at a right angle. It is L-shaped and incorporates two front rooms and a central entrance hall leading to a staircase behind the right-hand room, and a single-room wing behind the left-hand room. The older range was likely used as service and cooking areas when the addition was built.

The Old Glebe’s exterior has an asymmetrical five-window front with mostly 20th-century one-, two-, and three-light casement windows, except for a Victorian decorative glazed light on the first floor at the centre. A wide doorway leads to the passage and has a 20th-century plank door. Glebe House has a symmetrical three-window front with early 19th-century 12-pane sashes; the left-hand windows are blocked behind but retain their glass. A central doorway has panelled reveals and a rectangular fanlight above a contemporary six-panel door. The left-hand elevation of Glebe House also incorporates early 19th-century sashes on the first floor, with one 20th-century casement inserted, and tall Victorian sashes on the ground floor.

Inside The Old Glebe, features include chamfered ceiling beams and an open fireplace with a wooden lintel in the left-hand room. Glebe House retains original six-panel doors, the original staircase with a column newel and stick balusters, and simple moulded plaster cornices.