Ploggs Hall

Ploggs Hall is a house, originally a farmhouse, with 17th-century origins, but substantially rebuilt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and modernised in the early 20th century. The ground floor is constructed of coursed sandstone ashlar, rusticated with a plinth and a plat band at first-floor level. Above, the walls are timber-framed, clad with peg-tile at the rear and scallop-tiles elsewhere. Brick stacks and chimney shafts rise through a peg-tile roof.

The house has a rectangular, double-depth plan, facing a little north of east. A central front doorway leads to a large entrance hall containing the main staircase. Principal rooms are situated on either side of the front, and are heated by rear stacks serving the rear kitchen and service rooms. A rear room on the left side was likely the 18th/19th-century kitchen, as evidenced by a large blocked fireplace backing onto the front parlour. The axial stack serving that room is a later addition. The plan layout largely reflects the late 18th/early 19th-century rebuilding, although the left (south) front room section retains remains of a 17th-century house, specifically a large fireplace which indicates a former kitchen.

The house is two storeys high, with attics in the roof space.

The symmetrical front has five windows, likely dating back to the early 20th century, fitted with paired 8-pane sashes with horns. The central front doorway has a contemporary top-glazed door with diagonal planks in the lower panels, set behind a gabled porch supported on timber posts. Most windows were replaced in the early 20th century, maintaining a similar size. The left end of the garden front has three windows, including French windows installed around 1988. The rear elevation has less regular window placement. A service doorway is situated at the rear, and a small doorway with a tall side light, likely dating from the late 18th or early 19th century and protected by twisted iron bars, is found on the rear and right (north) end. The eaves are plain, with a hipped roof on all sides and a central axial valley.

The interior has largely been shaped by successive modernisations throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, though the original late 18th/early 19th-century layout remains. Within the front parlour, features from the 17th-century house are visible, including a large brick fireplace with a plain oak lintel and blocked openings leading to an oven and ash-pit. The parlour and the bedroom above possess chamfered and scroll-stopped axial beams. The 17th-century roof was incorporated and adapted into the later roof, which features a collared tie purlin truss built for clasped side purlins. The later roof demonstrates good solid carpentry with collared tie-beam trusses, raking struts, staggered butt purlins, and particularly impressive reinforced diagonal trusses on the hipped corners.

Ploggs Hall is part of a group that includes its former farm buildings.