Glebe Farmhouse

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SW 63 SW CROWAN CROWAN

4/153 Glebe Farmhouse -

GV II

Rectory, used as farmhouse since the C19. Circa late C17 or earlier, some later extension and remodelling. Granite rubble walls, the front and ends rendered. Scantle slate roofs with gable ends, some C17 hand-made crested clay ridge tiles. Brick chimneys over gable ends plus later axial chimney over cross wall towards right; the right hand chimney rendered and over a large external stack. Plan : present plan has 3 rooms along the front, 2 shallow gable ended wings behind the middle, deeper lower gable ended wing behind the left hand room, outshut with shallower roof pitch and small gable ended projection behind right hand room plus a lean-to: behind the middle gable-ended wing. A cross passage is between the left hand room (now a parlour) and the middle room (originally an unheated service room); the stair hall is in the wing behind the middle room and the right hand room is the present kitchen. The other rear wings and lean-tos are unheated service rooms. The present stair is circa late C17-early C18 and at that time the house probably comprised the 3 front rooms, the stair wing and the left hand rear wing, and the cross passage was probably a through passage. The 1679 Glebe Terrier description gives : a hall, a buttery, a little room in the buttery, a little room in the kitchen a dairy, 3 chambers and a study. Very similar to the present accommodation. 2 storeys. Overall regular 4-window front. The windows are C19 12-pane sashes and later replacements with horns, except for a horned 16-pane sash in the wider ground floor left hand window. The wide doorway with 4-panel top-glazed door is under the 2nd from left 1st floor window; the window of the middle room and of the chamber over are spaced quite near the doorway. At: the rear of the stair wing, quite low down lighting the space under the 1st landing, is a single light chamfered granite window. Stair sash has marginal panes. Interior partly inspected : circa late C17 open-well stair with closed moulded string, column-turned balusters (some of them inverted), complex moulded hand rail and ball finials over the newels; old doors, at least one C18 2-panel door, the original floors and probably roof structure and an intact plan. This is an unusually unaltered former C17 rectory. A new vicarage was built on a different site (1888) and this house is little altered since then.

Listing NGR: SW6464234505

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