NHER 20597 (Building record) - Glebe Farm (formerly High Green Farm)

This property is situated at the western end of the present village, but was formerly central to the west of the two settlement foci in the Late Saxon or early medieval period, on the boundary of a large common or green.The house is set back to the northeast of the modern road, its position marking the edge of the original common across which the road was cut. The property was formerly known as High Green Farm but its name has been changed to Glebe Farm in recent times. Another property to the west is now known as High Green Farm.

The house is of two storeys, and aligned north-west to south-east. Formerly there was a large courtyard surrounded by farm buildings which adjoined the house to the north-east and south-west of the south-east gable wall. A large pond is located to the south-east of the house.

The lack of visible original features in the interior of the building makes dating it difficult. However, the evidence suggests that the original structure was a single-storey flint house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. It appears to have been enlarged and altered around 1700 with the addition of an upper storey in brick, a new brick south-west façade and south-east gable, and probably a new north-east wall. It is likely that the present roof structure also dates from this phase of rebuilding. The rear outshut was added in the late 18th or early 19th century. The building may have been subdivided at a later date, perhaps in the 19th century.
Timbers salvaged from demolished farm buildings include a timber which bears the date 1651.
See (S1) for further details.
E. Rose (NAU), 30 August 1984.