Plas Warren Hall

ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. PLAS WARREN SJ 33 NW 3/149 Plas Warren Hall - (formerly listed as Plas Warren) 27.5.53 GV II Manor house, now farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18 incorporating earlier building; later additions and alterations. Red brick on sandstone plinth encapsulating timber frame, partly exposed to rear; slate roofs. Basic H-plan comprising long hall range of central baffle-entry type with gabled cross-wings, that to left having twin- gabled range to right on rear; mid-C19 additions to rear of left cross- wing. 2 storeys and formerly gable-lit attics with floor bands, toothed to first floor, plain corner piers to cross-wings and moulded stone eaves cornice carried up as coped verges to gables of cross-wings. 2:3:2 windows, segmental-headed C19 cross windows, blind to centre on first floor. Blind roundels to gables of cross-wings. Central C20 gabled red brick porch with contemporary glazed door. Central red brick ridge stack and prominent external lateral stacks to cross-wings, left with stone quoins. Right cross-wing has prominent stepped external end stack to rear with dentilled band to top of base and raised lozenge-shaped pattern below; 3 attached and rebated shafts with projecting strips to sides. Timber frame (rectangular panels with short straight brace) visible to left side of cross-wing to rear, leaded casement on first floor. Catslide outshut to hall range between it and twin-gabled range. Coped verges on carved stone kneelers to rear gable of right cross-wing and also to twin-gabled range. Mid-C19 service range and stables attached to read of left cross- wing. Interior. Timber framed cross walls: wall posts visible but remainder covered at time of resurvey (March 1987). Wide dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Ridge stack has inglenook fireplace with segmental chamfered wooden lintel to ground floor to right and C19 Jacobean-style overmantel to left. Some C17 panelling and several panelled doors with H- and L-hinges.

Listing NGR: SJ3382438873