Glebe House

GLEBE HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1276990
Date first listed:
14-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Glebe House
Statutory Address:
GLEBE HOUSE
Tall house with arched doors and windows.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1276990
Date first listed:
14-Aug-1984
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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GLEBE HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Swainswick
National Grid Reference:
ST 75768 68414

Details

ST 76 NE SWAINSWICK UPPER SWAINSWICK

5/238 Glebe House

- II

Former rectory. Late C17, altered late C18 and c. 1860, probably by C.E. Davis of Bath. Rubble with freestone quoins and dressings; slate roof with coped raised verges and central ashlar stack. 3 storeys. 3 bays to the main part: mid - late C19, 3-light cross windows and C20 French windows on ground floor; 2 glazing bar sash windows and one tripartite sash window on first floor and 3 glazing bar sash windows on second. 2 storey, single bay extension to left with 3-light cross window. Central doorway in ogee and ovolo moulded surround and under a flat stone hood on brackets; remains of a continuous dripmould over. The east gable retains three 2-light casement windows in ovolo moulded surrounds and under dripmoulds. The rear is all mid - late C19: the north west gable entry has a 3-light window in an unusual arched surround on the second floor and a chamfered and arched doorway.

Listing NGR: ST7576868414

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
408071
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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