Glebe Cottage And Attached Barn

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.