The Glebe

Lower Hutt City, New Zealand

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The Glebe, built in 1856 in Lower Hutt, is probably the oldest surviving house in the Hutt Valley and the first vicarage constructed there. Designed by William Corbett, a church warden for the Naenae district, the Victorian timber weatherboard home was erected on land donated to the Anglican church by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. At the turn of the twentieth century, the house passed to prominent Wellington architect Frederick de Jersey Clere, who renamed it "The Glebe"—an archaic term for church-owned land—and added a southern wing extension. The two-storey structure features a gable roof, originally shingled, though the window hoods are later additions and an original exterior staircase has been removed. Classified as a Heritage New Zealand Category I historic place, it remains an important example of early colonial architecture in the region.