Plas Captain is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 February 1981. House.

Plas Captain

WRENN ID
western-pier-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 February 1981
Type
House
Address
Plas Captain, Denbigh
OS grid reference
SJ 032 637
Coordinates
53.16197, -3.44835
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Plas Captain is a two-storey farmhouse, originally featuring an additional dormer storey. It is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond on a limestone rubble plinth, topped with a slate roof and squat end chimneys. The symmetrical facade has three bays, with a central entrance that includes a circa 1900 slated canopy porch with a boarded gable. The original six-panel fielded door now has glazed upper lights and is framed by a contemporary pegged and moulded doorcase. Both floors feature near-flush 12-pane unhorned sash windows, except for the lower right window, which is a horned replacement. The windows have moulded frames with cambered heads and projecting stone sills.

On the left gable end, there is a late Victorian shallow projecting oriel window with a wooden frame and a corbelled sill, featuring plain sashes. The rear of the house includes a full-length, two-storey 18th-century outshut made of limestone rubble, which returns onto the right gable as a two-window lean-to porch block. This porch has a part-glazed modern entrance at the front and modern wooden casements in cambered openings. The outshut has modern ground floor windows, while the first floor retains three 16-pane unhorned 18th-century sashes. A tall brick chimney is located on the right side.

Adjoining to the right is a late 19th-century two-bay carthouse, built of limestone with a slate roof and featuring boarded doors on the right-hand bay. The farmhouse retains original two-panel fielded doors on both the ground and first floors, set in contemporary architraves. Inside, there is a full-height primary oak dogleg stair that rises to the attic floor, complete with a moulded rail and turned balusters.

Local climate

Plas Captain sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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