Glebe House
GLEBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328905
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328905
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1985
- 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:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ruanlanihorne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 89445 42004
Details
SW 84 SE
4/15
RUAN LANIHORNE
RUAN LANIHORNE
Glebe House,
GV
II
Parsonage house (now private house), C17 or earlier with some late C18 and C20
rebuilding. Slatestone with concrete pantile gable roof and lateral brick and stone
stacks. 3 room plan with single storey wing to front. 2 storeys. Irregular 6
window front. Ground floor is window, French window, window, French windows, wing
and blind to right of wing. Left 2 bays have cambered brick arches and projecting
keystones. Windows are 18- and 12-pane sashes. Brick fireplace blocked to left of
brick lateral stack showing wing has been reduced. Buttress to far right may be
evidence for further wing no longer existing. Rear has external stone lateral stack
and projection which may be lateral chimney breast.
Interior has wide hearth and bread oven, bowtell moulded beams and straight flight
stair with panelled dado (probably early C18).
This was the home of historian and writer the Rev.John Whitaker from 1777 until his
death in 1808. In his The History of Ruan Lanihorne he describes the house, its
alterations and previous incumbents in great detail.
Henry Dell, vicar from 1643, built a room to the south described thus: 'It is one of
the best rooms in any parsonage-house of the whole county, for the largeness, the
loftiness and the regularity of it. It has a ceiling handsomely coved, and is 19
feet by 18 feet 6 inches.....'. Extracts from The History of Ruan Lanihorne by the
Rev. John Whitaker (1784), Edited by H L Douch, Journal of Royal Institution of
Cornwall
Listing NGR: SW8944542004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 62856
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whitaker, J, Journal of the Royal Institute of Cornwall in The History of Ruan Lanihorne, (1974)
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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