Glebe House
GLEBE HOUSE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118951
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118951
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE HOUSE, FORE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorncombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37632 03321
Details
ST 3703 THORNCOMBE FORE STREET, EAST SIDE 7/96 Glebe House, (formerly listed as The Vicarage) 4.12.51 GV II Detached House. C16 with C17 and later alterations. Rubble walls, rendered with stone brick quoins to North-East. Slate roofs with stone gable-copings to South-West and North-East. L-shaped plan with lean-to roof over present front-passage (North Side). South elevation (rear) 2 storeys. Five window-range with mixture of casements and sashes, including C18 bayed-out room to ground floor with sashes and leaded quarries to side windows. East elevation (rear) 2 storeys. Two window-range. Good early C17 mullion window with hollow chamfers and sunk quadrant to surround. Ham stone. Original casements with square leaded leights and opaque glass. Interior features: Re-set C16 stone fireplace with a depressed Tudor arch in a square head. Four-light hollow-chamfered mullion window, now blocked in the front passage wall. Stained glass: 1) roundel in front-passage window yellow and blue glass mainly, dated 1850 and inscribed "Edwardus Denison Sarum Apiscopus" 2) 3-light Victorian 'perpendicular' window in West wall with stained glass designed as a commemorative church window for Admiral Hood, thought to have died in Crimean War. Dated 1855 in a roundel where the inscription "Empere VR 1855 Napolean III" appears. Sunsidiary: Fragments of late medieval window tracery from the old church in the garden 30 metres North of House. Sources: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 248(20).
Listing NGR: ST3763203321
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 248
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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