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Summary

A former rectory built in the early to mid 17th century, now divided into two houses.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1162102: GLEBE HOUSE THE OLD GLEBE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS40NE/42
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 90986

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• VICARAGE (Built, XVII - 1601 AD (Between) to 1700 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Broadly square building with a U-shaped range of buildings to the north marked as a Rectory.

Caulfield-Brown, P., 1967, Proceedings at the 105th Annual Meeting, 27-28 (Article in Serial). SDV19699.

The Devonshire Association visited the house during their annual meeting in June 1967 where they were shown a collection of artefacts, prints and drawings relating to the Fortescue family.

Department of Environment, 1988, Buckland Filleigh, 8 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV4698.

The Old Glebe and Glebe House. Pair of houses, originally the rectory. Early to mid C17 with early C19 addition. Plastered cob and rubble walls. Gable-ended slate roof to the Old Glebe, hipped roof to Glebe House. The Old Glebe has a projecting plastered rubble lateral stack at the front and a similar one at its left gable end. Glebe house has 3 rendered brick stacks - one at its right end, one at the end of the end of the rear wing and one lateral one at the front.
Plan: 2 distinct parts, now divided, but formerly one house. The Old Glebe to the right, is the earlier with the 2 rooms and through-passage plan - the right-hand room heated by a front lateral stack and the left-hand room by a gable-end stack. Glebe House constitutes an early C19 addition to the rear of the Old Glebe and at right angles to it forming a new front block. It is l-shaped with 2 front rooms and a central entrance hall leading to stairs behind the right-hand room and a 1-room wing behind the left-hand room. The older range was probably relegated to service and cooking functions when the addition was built.
Exterior: 2 storeys. The Old Glebe has an asymmetrical 5-window front of mainly C20 1, 2 and 3-light casements apart from a victorian decorative glazed light on the 1st floor at the centre. Wide doorway to passage below it with C20 plank door. Glebe House has a symmetrical 3-window front of early C19 12-pane sashes. The left-hand windows are blind - being blocked by the stock behind but do retain their glass. Central doorway with panelled reveals and rectangular fanlight above contemporary 6-panel door. The left-hand elevation also has early C19 sashes on the first floor with 1 C20 casement inserted and tall Victorian sashes on the ground floor.
Interior: Old Glebe has chamfered ceiling beams and an open fireplace with wooden lintel in the left-hand room. Glebe House preserves 6-panel doors, its original staircase with column newel and stick balusters and simple moulded plaster cornices.

Ordnance Survey, 2024, Mastermap 2024 (Cartographic). SDV365834.

Two adjoining houses around a small, interior courtyard.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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