Plashes Farm

Plashes Farm is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with a south range that may be slightly older and additions made to the front in the early 18th century. The building features a timber frame covered in roughcast, with old red tile roofs and a brick sill. It has a T-plan layout, facing east, with a crosswing on the south and a single-storey kitchen at the north end, which includes a later lean-to that is pantiled and weatherboarded at the rear.

A wide 18th-century gabled wing has been added at the front, positioned at the angle of the projecting south wing and the main range. The east face of the south wing features a single-storey 19th-century timber porch and a rustic verandah with a hipped roof made of fishscale slate, wrapping around the south corner. A post supports an overhanging stair projection at the rear angle of the south wing.

The crosswing contains two rooms with a large central chimney, and there is a small central window on the south wall, possibly for a former stair. The parlour on the east side has a later cellar beneath it. The main range includes a staircase and two unheated rooms, with a passage leading to the kitchen at the north end. The 18th-century front wing has a narrow entrance hall that leads to the staircase, creating a centralized plan, with a bedroom and attic above.

The front of the building features flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes, arranged three above one another in the east end of the south wing, two on the upper floor of the 18th-century gabled extension, and one to the right of the wooden porch on the ground floor. The entrance, which has a panelled door and a hooded doorcase, is located in the re-entrant angle on the right. The south side of the south wing includes two buttresses and stepped underpinning to the brick sill, with two flush box sash windows on each floor—one on each side of the small stair window, aligned with the central chimney. The upper floor windows have 6/6 panes, while the ground floor windows have 6/3 panes and 8/8 panes.