The Glebe

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement rendered former glebe house, built c. 1810, now derelict. Single-storey gabled porch projects from centre of east (front) elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered chimneystacks, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Unpainted roughcast walling, smooth-rendered to porch. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, painted three-over-six timber sash windows to basement, painted timber casement windows to upper floors c. 1960. Segmental-headed window opening to porch, stone sill, painted six-over-six timber sash window. Square-headed door opening, painted timber door with four panels, original ironmongery, stone approach steps to south spanning over basement area. Facing onto fields, rubble stone boundary walls, accessed by long unbounded path from public road to north, decorative wrought-iron gates at entrance, two-storey rubble stone farm building to west separated from house by yard.

This isolated glebe house sits comfortably in the rural landscape. Although derelict, and somewhat modified, its original form and relationship with the outbuilding remains undiluted. Early sash windows survive to the basement.