High Glebe Farm, North Street

This farmhouse was listed Grade II in 1985 with the following description:
'House. Early mid-C17 with C18 and later alterations. Rubble sandstone with stone dressings; roof of asbestos. 2 storeys, 4 windows. Ground floor has small casement left, then sashes flanking door in stop-chamfered surround with flattened Tudor arch and alternate block jambs. 4 sashes on first floor; all windows have flat stone heads and projecting stone cills. Right return has massive chimney stack, truncated at gable peak, and brick chimney stack corbelled out at first floor level. Roof has stone gable coping, one right end brick chimney and one transverse ridge chimney between first and second bays.'
This 17th century farmhouse originated as a two-bay house, consisting of a parlour and kitchen, separated by a wooden or timber and lathe screen. The kitchen was connected to a narrow single storey unheated room, probably used as a scullery. This communicated with the outbuildings on the east side, which were probably used for animals. The building would have been lower than at present with a roof of cruck beam construction. In the early 19th century the farmhouse was remodelled. A first floor was added to the scullery and the level of the whole was raised, as indicated by the presence of dressed sandstone upper quoins. The wide stairwell dates to around the 1820s. A timber sash window was inserted to light the stair and a brick chimney was added to the top of the original stone stack. Fireplaces were inserted in the first floor rooms, a Regency fireplace and grate surviving in one bedroom. The south-east range of outbuildings were built at this time. The roof level of the east range was raised, using the original cruck trusses from the farmhouse. Windows and doors were inserted into the North Street frontage of this range. Further alterations including asbestos roofs were added in the late 19th and 20th centuries. LISTED GRADE 2