Plas

Plas

This is a mid-to-late 18th-century vernacular house substantially enlarged in the 19th century with idiosyncratic gothic additions.

The original house is a 2-storey, 3-window range with a double-pile storeyed wing set at right angles to the rear. Built of rubble masonry with roughcast render and sandstone dressings, it has a slate roof with slightly projecting eaves, stone copings, a rendered stack at the left gable end, and a globe finial at the right. The entrance elevation is symmetrically planned as a 3-window range with a central doorway. Openings are recessed. The doorway has a shallow rectangular fanlight with glazing bars and a half-glazed door with a single leaded light. Windows are 12-pane sashes with stone sills; upper storey windows are smaller and set under the eaves. An advanced, taller 2-storey, 3-window range projects to the right, and an advanced single-storey wing projects at right angles to the left.

The advanced wing to the right is a 2-storey, 3-window range with a loggia to the front, a first-floor balcony at the right end, and a north-east tower to the rear abutting a lean-to extension with a gabled entrance and an advanced single-storey gabled wing. Built of rubble masonry with sandstone dressings, it has a slate roof with slightly projecting eaves and scalloped red clay ridge tiles, crow-stepped gables with stone copings, and rubble stacks with cornices. The front elevation features a ground-floor loggia on rubble piers, extended at the right end to form a verandah with a first-floor balcony above. The ground floor has french windows with louvred shutters. The first floor has slightly recessed 3-light transomed and mullioned casement windows with decorative coloured glass in the upper lights. The left gable return has a similarly detailed transomed and mullioned 2-light window above a 4-pane casement window with a leaded hood. The right gable return has modern lights, a central ground-floor window with louvred shutters, and two first-floor windows, the left one with a stone 'trellised' balcony. A stone tablet inscribed with entwined initials E M and V and the date 1874 is set in the gable apex.

At the north-east corner of this wing stands a storeyed rectangular tower of rubble masonry with a tall hipped slate roof. The tower has a gabled entrance with a narrow doorway of shaped head under a large stone lintel, with a diamond light above and a continuous string above that. Diamond lights light the first floor and slit lights the upper storey. Abutting the tower to the rear of the wing is a lean-to extension with a gabled entrance. The doorway has a shaped head and lintel with stressed lettering reading: PLAS TAN NAWDD DUW AI DANGNER (mansion under the patronage of God...). A small recessed light is set in the gable apex above. Flanking the door are canted oriel windows of paired, mullioned, leaded lights. To the right is a single opening boxed in with chamfered panelling with 6-pointed stars pierced in the upper panels. An advanced single-storey gabled wing to the far right has a slate roof with red clay decorative ridge tiles and a dragon finial, and a large rubble stack to the rear.

To the left end of the original house is a single-storey advanced gabled wing with a further advanced bay window at the front gable containing 4 transomed and mullioned lights. A datestone of 1895 is set in the gable apex. The wing is pebble-dashed rendered with a slate roof with red clay ridge tiles with gable finials and a central rendered ridge stack with cornice. The entrance is in the right-hand return through a recessed panelled door with a shouldered head. To the right of the doorway are 3 tall round-headed lights.