Listed Building: GARDEN COTTAGE AND GLEBE HOUSE AND SOUTH WING GLEBE HOUSE (109163)

CORFE CASTLE BUCKNOWLE SY 98 SE 3/11 Glebe House, South Wing Glebe House and Garden Cottage, Glebe House (formerly listed as The Old Rectory) 20.11.59 - II Former rectory, now private house divided into 3 units. Late C17 origin, altered in C18, largely remodelled 1800-1820. Irregular courtyard plan. Glebe House, the west range, has plastered walls and hipped slate roof with central brick stack. 2 storeys and attic. C20 reproduction panelled door in reproduction classical surround with pediment and pilasters. Ground floor has 2 sashes with glazing bars. 3 similar windows on first floor. Attic has one hipped dormer with similar sashes. On east front a C19 added canted bay window. Internally, main ground floor room has ornamental plaster cornice and C18 fireplace surround. Stair renewed c1960 in original form, with cut string and wreathed handrail. South Wing, the south courtyard range, consists of former outbuildings with rubble stone walls and tiled roof. Attached at left end, the former coach house, with weatherboarded walls and hipped tiled roof. Attached at rear, and forming part of the west courtyard range, a former stable, now used as garage, with rubble stone walls and hipped tiled roof. Garden Cottage consists of the north courtyard range and a wing north of this. Rubble stone walls and hipped tiled roof with stone eaves courses. North (main) range of one storey and attic. on ground floor, a C19 stone mullioned window, altered to form doorway. Also a C20 glazed porch and door, and one ledged door. Attic has 2 hipped dormers with sashes with glazing bars. (RCHM, Monument 14, Dorset. Vol. II). Listing NGR: SY9523181744

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