Description

SW 83 NE PHILLEIGH PHILLEIGH

3/64 The Glebe Country House (formerly
- listed as Glebe House)
30-5-67
GV II

Rectory, now restaurant and guest house. Circa early-mid C18, possibly incorporating
part of earlier house, extended C18-C19. Slatestone rubble walls. Slate hung to
east front. Hipped, double span scantle slate roof, steep with sprocketted eaves to
east (earlier) part with brick chimneys over side walls linked to main roof by small
gable roofs. Rear lateral stack, left. Hipped roof to west is lower pitch.
Originally rectangular ground floor plan of central vestibule and stair, one room
rear service wing, later incorporated into 2 room rear parallel range. Symmetrical 5
window east front. Central doorway approached by flight of granite steps with
nosings. Flat-headed wooden doorcase with ordered architrave and simple entablature
with dentils. Wide, top glazed door with overlight. Late C19 ground floor sashes
with pointed-arched lights. 18 paned sashes mostly early C19 without horns to first
floor. Cast iron, ogee eaves gutter with lions heads, 3 roof dormers with 12 pane
horned sashes and pedimented gables. North wall has nearly central entrance with 6
panel door (now partly glazed) and spoked fanlight. 12 pane, 2 light casements to
basement of earlier part left, blocked window opening to ground floor left and C18,
12-pane sash with wide glazing bars to first floor.
Interior has much original detail including open well open string turned baluster
stair with ramped handrail; fielded dado panelling to vestibule, stair and small
parlour left; full height panelling to room right, some moulded ceiling cornices;
2-panel doors; recesses in basement (possibly for wine storage). Pine roof structure
with slender collars morticed into heavy square section principal rafters with
stepped purlin mortices. Rear, early C19 addition has ground floor room with plaster
ceiling band and cornice, also moulded cornice to rear vestibule.
In 26th April 1727 Glebe Terriers description reads: 'House, partly stone, partly
mud, covered with thatch; a hall floored with boards and ceiled, a parlour, not
ceiled floored with lime, a small chamber above and a dairy adjoining; a little
buttery adjoining the hall; a kitchen floored with stone; a chamber over the entry
and 3 chambers (over cellars and woodhouses) all ceiled.' Clearly not a description
of the present house which was presumably built soon afterwards.

Listing NGR: SW8714639337

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535424

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)