Plas Newydd

Plas Newydd is an early Victorian country house, constructed around 1841, built in a competent Tudorbethan style. It is of limestone construction with ashlar dressings, medium-pitched slate roofs, and two-stage chimneys with dentil courses. The house has an irregular plan, consisting of a main, three-bay, gabled section of two-and-a-half storeys, with a lower service range adjoining to the right (north), partially enclosing a narrow service court. A double-pile block was added to the rear around 1901.

The main east-facing elevation is broadly symmetrical, featuring small-pane glazing throughout. A recessed central bay serves as the entrance, flanked by advanced wings. The entrance bay has a boarded and studded door with a stepped label stop above, accompanied by flanking cross-windows. A single-storey, three-bay loggia, flush with the outer bays, projects in front and has Tudor-arched openings, a parapet with a central triangular pediment, and squat obelisk finials. Above the entrance and loggia is a first-floor, three-light mullioned and transomed window with a moulded and returned label. A two-light mullioned window is found on the attic floor, contained within a gabled dormer. The outer bays have coped, kneelered gables with pyramid finials and central stone balls, labelled cross-windows, and an additional, second-floor, two-light window to the right gable.

The adjoining service wing to the right is set back slightly and features three-light transmullioned windows on each floor of its main section. An advanced, gabled section to the right has a two-light window above a six-light window, and a lozenge-shaped shield with raised initials ‘E H G’ and the date 1841 in the gable apex. The south elevation has cross-windows, with labels to those on the ground floor; bays 3 and 4 are contained within a shallow rectangular two-storey bay with a returned stringcourse above. The rear elevation is gabled and stuccoed, with cross-windows.

The later wing, added around 1901, adjoins the rear (west) and is constructed in the same materials but with simpler detailing. The main south elevation faces a small formal garden and incorporates a projecting bay with four tall cross windows, flanked by French windows (one blocked). The north side faces a cobbled stableyard and has twelve-pane sash windows arranged in four bays, with simple flush lateral and end chimneys. A low storeyed service wing is extruded in the angle between this wing and the main block, featuring two cambered-headed, eight-pane sliding sashes facing the service court. Rubble walls surround the service court, reaching an average height of 2.5m, and have cock-and-hen copings. A single-storey, mono-pitch boiler-house block adjoins the later wing to the west.

The interior of the house was not inspected at the time of survey.