Plowsters

Plowsters is a house dating from the late 16th and 17th centuries, with significant remodelling in the late 18th century. It is constructed of painted brick with a timber-framed rear gable. The house has a plain brick storey band with indented bands at the attic gables, and a slate roof featuring 19th-century ornamental serrated bargeboards and a fascia to the front. A central brick ridge stack rises from the roof, along with projecting stepped brick chimney stacks at each wing. The house follows a U-shaped plan, with a main range flanked by two projecting wings.

The front elevation is two storeys, with an attic and cellar, and features a four-window range, with the outer windows set in projecting gabled wings. The wings contain 18th-century wood mullioned windows with stone sills and restored leaded lights. Large two-mullion and transom windows are present in each storey within the wings, with metal multi-pane replacements on the ground floor of the wing to the left. The central section includes single-mullion windows, with a two-mullion window at ground level to the right and a metal multi-pane replacement window to the left. Attic windows are casements. Return sides incorporate 20th-century metal casements. The central entrance has a simple canopy protecting a glazed door with a two-panel lower section, set within a doorcase featuring panelled reveals and an open-pediment canopy on curved brackets.

The right return side has two 20th-century casements with leaded lights over a lean-to. The left return side features a partly rendered timber frame on a stone and brick plinth. The rear elevation contains two restored casements at first floor level; a 17th-century chamfered mullioned two-light casement is to the right, and a 20th-century restored casement to the left. Three 20th-century two-light casements and a glazed door are at ground floor level, all with leaded lights. The timber-framed gable-end to the right displays square panels, a restored sill, a girding beam, studs with mid rails, jowled posts, swept brace, cambered tie beam, vertical strut, and collar, as well as a single clasped purlin roof.

Internally, the central and right-hand wings consist of three bays of 17th-century origin, with chamfered bridging beams and cross bridging beams with ogee-chamfer stops, and a single trenched purlin roof, all under raised 18th-century eaves. The left-hand end bay is likely from the 16th century and contains a cellar with ashlar winding stairs adjacent to a large rubble stack.