Glebe House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Glebe House
- WRENN ID
- rough-loft-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Glebe House, Isle Brewers, TA3 6QN
- OS grid reference
- ST 368 208
- Coordinates
- 50.98394, -2.90124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Former rectory, now a house, dated 1847 for Joseph Woolfe D.D., Vicar of the parish. The building was restored in the 1950s by Lieutenant Colonel Boulter and later altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of local lias random coursed rubble, with a replacement concrete tile roof. The architectural style is Tudor-Gothic, arranged in a roughly T-shaped plan.
The two-story garden front has a 1:1 bay arrangement. To the left, a projecting section is defined by a front-facing gable, featuring a restored 5-light mullioned and transomed bay window with a battlemented cornice, a stone roof, a 3-light stone-mullioned and transomed window on the first floor, a coped verge, and a finial to the gable. To the right of the projecting section, on the ground floor, are a mullioned and transomed window and a single-light window. The first floor features a 2-light casement dormer. Cast-iron casements with plate glass panes are found on the ground floor, while the upper windows have glazing bars.
The entrance front, on the left return, is largely restored and incorporates a front-facing gable with a stone-roofed canted bay and a 4-light casement on the first floor. It also includes a gabled projecting porch with a 4-centered door opening, a coped parapet, and an inner panelled and glazed door. A projecting chimney-breast to the right displays a date plaque. A 1987 conservatory added to the rebuilt left bay is not considered to be of special interest.
The interior includes original panelled doors, moulded architraves, a decorated fireplace in the former dining room, and plainer fireplaces elsewhere. A staircase features chamfered stick balusters and ogee-topped newels. Joseph Woolfe was known for his conversion to Catholicism and subsequent embrace of the Anglican church; his life is documented in contemporary sources. A coach-house with an attached stable to the northwest and outbuildings attached to the west are not of special interest.
Local climate
Glebe House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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