Plox House

Plox House is a house, now part of King's School, dated 1687. It is constructed of local stone with pebbledash rendering and features a stone slate roof with plain gables and stone and brick chimney stacks. The building has a plain roof with twin rear gables that are at right angles to the street. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a street elevation of two bays, with a plain gable on the left. A stone plaque in the gable reads "A/TM/1687". The upper level of both bays has cruciform timber windows, and bay one includes a simple doorway with a Gothic-style door, topped by an early 20th-century timber hood supported by wood brackets on stone corbels. In the roof, there is a single hipped roof dormer in bay two. The west facade features three bays with 12-pane sash windows in plain surrounds, and there is a low part-glazed door in a heavy frame to the right of bay three. A lower matching three-bay extension is located to the north. Although the interior was not seen, a report mentions a fine 17th-century stair in an open well in one of the east gables, with newel posts that have finials and pendents. Some door frames are noted to be in a transitional phase between ovolo and bolection mouldings. The building became school premises in 1902, initially serving as a Junior School and then becoming part of the senior school in 1947.