Glebe House
GLEBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250017
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250017
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE HOUSE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Isle Brewers
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3683420892
Details
In the entry for:-
ST32SE ISLE BREWERS CP ISLE BREWERS VILLAGE
4/3 Glebe House
-
- II
the description should be ammended to read:-
Former rectory, now house. Dated 1847 for Joseph Woolfe. D. D, Vicar
of the parish, restored 1950's by Lieut. Colonel Boulter; later C20
alterations. Local lias random coursed rubble, replacement concrete
tile roof. Tudor-Gothic style, roughly T-plan. Two storeys, garden
front of 1:1 bays; to left projecting under a front-facing gable,
restored 5-light mullioned and transomed bay window, battlemented
cornice, stone roof, 3-light stone-mullioned and transomed window
on first floor, coped verge and finial to gable; to right on ground
floor a mullioned and transomed window and a single-light window,
on first floor a 2-light casement dormer; cast-iron casements to
ground floor with plate glass panes, glazing bars to upper windows.
Entrance front on left return, largely restored, has a front-facing
gable with stone-roofed canted bay, 4-light casement on first floor.
Gabled projecting porch, 4-centered door opening, coped parapet,
inner panelled and glazed door; projecting chimney-breast to right
with date plaque; 1987 conservatory to rebuilt left bay not of special
interest.
Interior: Original panelled doors, moulded architraves, decorated
fireplace to former dining room and plainer fireplaces elsewhere,
stair with chamfered stick balusters and ogee-topped newels. Woolfe
was well known for his conversion to the Catholic faith and his
subsequent embracing of the Anglican church, his life is well
documented in contemporary sources.
Coach-house with stable attached to north-west and outbuildings
attached to west not of special interest.
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ST32SE ISLE BREWERS CP ISLE BREWERS VILLAGE
BREWERS ';ILL4GE
4/3 Glebe House II
-
- II
Former rectory, now house. Dated 1847 for Joseph Woolfe D.D, Vicar of the parish. Local lias random coursed rubble,
replacement concrete tile roof. Tudor-Gothic style, roughly T-plan. Two storeys, garden front of 1:1 bays; to left
projecting under a front-facing gable, 5-light mullioned and transomed bay window, battlemented cornice, stone roof,
3-light stone-mullioned and transomed window on first floor, coped verge and finial to gable; to right on ground floor
a mullioned and transomed window and a single-light window, on first floor a 2-light casement dormer; cast-iron
casements to ground flour with plate glass panes, glazing bars to upper windows. Entrance front on left return has a
front-facing gable with stone-roofed canted bay, 4-light casement on first floor. Gabled projecting porch, 4-centred
door opening, coped parapet; projecting chimney-breast to right with data plaque. Interior believed to have coeval
features, Woolfe was well known for his conversion to the Catholic faith and his subsequent embracing of the Anglican
Church. It it believed his life is well documented in contemporary sources.
Listing NGR: ST3683420892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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