Plas Blodwell

Plas Blodwell is a large neo-Georgian house of two storeys, built in brown brick with darker brick quoins, topped by a steep hipped slate roof. The roof sits on a moulded wooden dentil cornice with projecting eaves. Chimneys are distributed across the building: one at each end, four set just below the ridge on the front slope, and one centrally positioned behind.

The symmetrical front elevation is fifteen bays, arranged in groups of three. The outer three bays on each side project forward under their own hipped roof. The central entrance features a replacement glazed door with original small-pane side lights and overlights, flanked by two floor-length two-light windows with overlights. Above the entrance is a three-bay first-floor balcony supported on paired thin Tuscan steel piers, with an openwork balustrade of elongated diamond pattern.

The first floor has a central tripartite window with small-pane sashes and intersecting Gothic glazing bars, flanked by similar windows. Other windows throughout are hornless sashes. The three bays either side of centre have ground-floor tripartite eight-pane windows flanking a narrower eight-pane window, while the first floor has paired eight-pane windows flanking a narrower single eight-pane window. The outer three bays on each end have ground-floor twelve-pane windows flanked by eight-pane windows; the first floor has floor-length eighteen-pane windows flanked by eight-pane windows. These floor-length windows open onto cantilevered balconies at each end, with balustrades matching the central balcony.

The left end wall contains a false external stack with three twelve-pane ground-floor windows and two four-pane upper windows. A doorway has been inserted into this stack to provide access to an escape stair. The right end wall has two twelve-pane ground-floor windows and two narrow four-pane first-floor windows flanking its false external stack. A ground-floor window has also been inserted on the left side.

The rear elevation features advanced three-window bays to the centre and ends, each under hipped roofs with a lower ridge line than the main range. The central advanced bay contains two twelve-pane first-floor windows and a tripartite eight-pane ground-floor window with inserted fan, flanked by single eight-pane windows. This central bay is flanked by two bays with six-pane windows on the left and one similar bay on the right, leading to lower flat-roofed links with two-storey wings.

Above the right-hand wing are a six-pane and smaller four-pane window on the first floor. Beyond the left-hand rear wing is a single-storey projection with three first-floor windows including a tall twelve-pane stair light. The corresponding right side has a tall fourteen-pane stair window and nine-pane horned sash window, with an original moulded freestone surround to replacement half-glazed doors and overlight below. The left projection has inserted doors with overlights flanked by eight-pane windows in both storeys, and the upper storey has added escape stairs to a balcony on steel posts. The corresponding right side has ground-floor twelve-pane and eight-pane windows, and an upper-storey eighteen-pane window flanked by eight-pane windows.

The rear wings are brick-built with roofs concealed behind parapets. They retain original two-light casements with lying panes on the first floor, though windows below have been altered.

Internally, the building has been largely modernised but retains an axial corridor leading to staircases set back from the ends. Both staircases are open-well stairs with turned newels and plain balusters.