Plas Wilmot

Plas Wilmot is a two-storey villa constructed of red brick and coursed rubble with a slate roof. The house was built in 1829 and faces south, overlooking gardens, with a carriage sweep before the northern entrance front.

The south (garden) front displays the original three-bay symmetrical composition. The central bay projects slightly and features a shallow gable. At ground floor it has a pair of French windows with margin glazing, above which is a sixteen-pane sash window. Either side on both floors are twelve-pane sashes. A continuous stone band runs across this section at the level of the first floor window sills. To the right is a lean-to conservatory added in the 1990s. To the left, set back, is an addition appearing to date from the 1870s and circa 1897, which has a doorway with timber porch at ground floor and sash windows to the first floor. Further left and projecting is a gabled addition of circa 1897, extended again in 1937. This range contains pantries at ground floor and a nursery at first floor level with two sash windows featuring cambered heads.

The north (entrance) front has a projecting porch to the left of centre with a hipped roof. Its panelled and half-glazed door is flanked by two small sashes with arched heads. To the left is a circa 1897 addition with two bays of sash windows containing plate glass. To the right is walling which appears to date from the original 1829 building, though it has two bays of windows inserted at the end of the 19th century with brickwork surrounds and stone dressings appearing to date from 1897. At far right is another circa 1897 addition with a single sash to the ground floor.

The service court, attached to the west side, is roughly rectangular. The south side has a stone range with a stable door to the ground floor and a pitching eye set in a later gable to the first floor. The west side has a wide through-arch with basket arch to the left of centre, a stable door to its left and wide wooden garage doors to its right. A small leaded turret with weather vane was added to the ridge of this range in the early 21st century. The north side has three pig sty doors at the left, having lost their front enclosure walls shown on early Ordnance Survey maps. To the right are a shed with lean-to roof and a gabled workshop range with doors to either end, between which is a four-light casement window. The workshop is connected to one of a pair of gate piers with hinge stones and moulded stone caps forming an entrance to the enclosed yard.

The interior on both floors features panelled doors to the majority of rooms. The ground floor has herringbone parquet flooring of 20th-century date. Most fire surrounds have been altered in the 20th century, although one in a bedroom appears to date from circa 1829. The central bedroom on the garden front, believed to be the room in which Wilfred Owen was born, has a shallow oval barrel-vaulted ceiling. Pantries are fitted with fixed slate counters on brick stands and shelving with iron brackets.