Remains of former Plas Berw

The remains of the former Plas Berw are from an old house that was rectangular in shape, featuring a central hall with kitchens and a buttery at the eastern end, separated from the hall by screens, and a solar to the west. In the late 16th century, a three-storey building was added to the south side of the solar. Between 1650 and 1750, a wall was constructed to divide the hall from this new section, which are the most significant remains of the old house, still standing to their full height. Other walls have been reduced to low walling and foundations, but parts of the northern wall are included in the southern courtyard wall of the later house.

The walls are made of local rubble, primarily gritstone, with large quoins and sandstone dressings. The walls of the late 16th-century building at the southern end of the solar are intact, featuring a gable stack at the southern end and a tall dressed stack at the southeast corner. The southern wall has a blocked, square-headed doorway with massive stone jambs and a lintel. The southern, eastern, and western walls have various rectangular windows with one or more lights, all having dressed surrounds with quarter-round moulded jambs and heads. The northern wall, which is the southern solar wall, includes a segmental-headed doorway with chamfered jambs at the eastern end, and another doorway at the western end that has lost its dressings. Above this doorway is a first-floor doorway with dressed jambs and a rubble head.

The dividing wall between the hall and solar is positioned at a right angle to the northwest corner of the late 16th-century building, which also stands to full height and features a rubble bellcote at the apex and a central ground floor doorway that is now without dressings. The southern wall of the courtyard incorporates parts of the old house; at the western end is the original segmental-headed doorway leading to the screens. East of this doorway is the hall window, a rectangular frame with a hoodmould, containing the remains of three blocked cinquefoil lights. East of the hall window is the head and pointed pediment of an early 17th-century window, which was inserted by Thomas Holland, whose initials are visible in the tympanum.