Plex House

Plex House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the mid-17th century, with early 19th-century additions. The building is timber framed with red brick nogging, which has been refaced or rebuilt, and it has been extended in red brick. The roofs are covered in plain tiles. The framing features square panels up to the 17th-century wall plate, with short straight corner braces, and the eaves have been raised by one panel height at a later date. The house has an L-plan layout, consisting of a 17th-century range with two framed bays and an early 19th-century addition at the front (west side). It has two storeys and a gable-lit attic.

Architectural details include a moulded stone eaves cornice and parapeted gable ends with stone coping and moulded kneelers. There are integral brick end stacks and a large dressed grey sandstone and brick ridge stack at the rear wing, featuring panels and a dentil brick cornice. The façade has three bays with glazing bar sash windows, which are 16-pane except for the centre window, and they have painted stone cills and lintels. The central entrance features a half-glazed door with beaded flush-panelled reveals and soffit, a reeded impost band, a wreathed radial fanlight, and a keystone. The porch is made of painted stone in the Doric style, with unfluted columns and pilasters, a triglyph frieze, a cornice, and a blocking course. There is a blocked door on the right-hand return front with a 20th-century metal casement window inserted. The timber frame is visible in the gable end of the rear wing, which includes a collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and V-struts. There are early to mid-20th-century additions in the angle at the rear, which probably include a re-set Salop fire insurance plate. The interior has not been inspected.