Glenbrook

SP 03 SW WINCHCOMBE GRETTON FIELD, GRETTON 1/110 Glenbrook - - II

Detached house dated 1849. Hard red brick with some embellishment from blue headers, roof with plain and fish-scale tiles and decorative tile cresting, richly decorated fretwork barge boards. A compact but richly modelled Victorian Gothic villa with two principal and two lesser gables to main front and two gables on right return, gable stacks with moulded shafts. Two storeys, four-windowed, 2 and 3-light ovolo mould mullioned casements in flush stone surrounds with alternating quoins and some with transome, central plank door in 4-centred arch and set in gabled porch with decorative barge board. Oriel on brackets on return, right. In the right hand gable first floor front a sunk stone panel with date. Reputed to have been built by a Rector of Alderton, this building is externally quite unspoiled and has craftsmanship and decoration of a high standard.

Listing NGR: SP0023831943