Glebe Cottage and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. A Cl6 Laithe house.
Glebe Cottage and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- open-sandstone-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Laithe house
- Address
- Glebe Cottage and Attached Barn, Cheddon Fitzpaine
- OS grid reference
- ST 243 277
- Coordinates
- 51.04384, -3.0807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glebe Cottage and the attached barn is a late 16th-century laithe house located in Cheddon Fitzpaine Village. The building has been rendered and features raking buttresses to the right of the entrance and to the left of the barn door. It has a thatched roof with a hipped left side and enlarged brick stacks on the left gable end and at the center, the latter resting on the remains of an earlier stone stack. The layout includes a gable end facing the road, with a two-cell plan and a cross passage, along with a barn to the left and an outshot at the rear. The structure is one and a half storeys high, with 19th and 20th-century casements, including two 2-light eyebrow dormers on the left and 3-light casements flanking the entrance. There is a single-storey garden shop with a double Roman tiled lean-to roof at the center, and a wooden lintel above the barn entrance on the left. The rear features a colourwashed random rubble extension.
Inside, some details are partially visible. There is a peaked-headed door frame in the cross passage partition on the right, and the room to the left has a similar plastered partition with chamfered beams and scroll stops. The large inglenook fireplace has a chamfered bead, and there is a partition opposite the rear wall with a straight stair, likely on the site of an earlier winder stair. The barn and roof have not been inspected, and the precise evolution of the house remains unclear, though it may have originally featured an open hall.
Local climate
Glebe Cottage and Attached Barn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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