Plas-y-Ward

Plas-y-Ward is a two-and-a-half storey double-pile gentry house built of roughcast brick. It features projecting and gabled end chimneys on each range, with unrendered stacks. The slate roof is adorned with sandstone copings and shaped kneelers at the gable parapets. The main facade is symmetrical with five bays, including a central entrance that has a simple late 19th-century wooden open porch. The entrance is fitted with a late 19th-century four-panel door and a rectangular two-pane overlight. The ground and first floors have near-flush four-pane 19th-century sash windows with marginal glazing, while the attic has three hipped dormers with similar, squatter windows. To the right, there is a flush single-storey 19th-century lean-to addition featuring a large six-pane early 20th-century window at the front and a twelve-pane sash window on the side. A modern uPVC conservatory has been added at the angle between this lean-to and the rear gable end of the main house.

The rear elevation is nearly symmetrical, with a central entrance that has the original two-panel door framed by an ovolo-moulded pegged oak frame and a simple late 19th-century canopy porch. Above the entrance is a plain six-pane cross-window, which is positioned between the ground and first floors to illuminate the stair landing. Similar cross-windows are found on the ground and first floors, along with three gabled dormers in the roof, which were undergoing restoration at the time of the survey. A 19th-century slated lean-to service addition is attached to the centre of the north side.

Inside, the entrance hall features oak dado panelling made from re-used early 17th-century small-field panelling, along with arcaded frieze decoration. The original late 17th-century oak dog-leg stair has square newels and turned balusters. In the front-facing room on the ground floor, there are two primary boarded niches in the rear wall, accompanied by a neo-Tudor stone fireplace.