Secondary House at Plas Chambres

L-shaped storeyed house with timber-framed core to red brick main range and a limestone rubble rear section; slate roof with lateral and end chimneys, the former gabled and projecting, and with off-set dentilations to the base of the stack. The main front faces the cobbled outer court. This has a central entrance with boarded door and pegged frame, with tripartite overlight. To the R is a window opening (much overgrown at time of inspection), and to the L is a blocked-up window. The upper floor has 2 late C17 wooden cross-windows which break the eaves and are contained within gabled dormers. The NW gable end (facing the main house) shows evidence of a former external stair with first floor entrance; modern breeze-block infill to this, with blocked entrance and 2-light mullioned window to the L of the stack. Entrance with boarded door to the rubble section, with 16-pane C19 sash above; modern garage lean-to to the R.

The interior has 2 pairs of cruck blades imbedded in the walls, implying a 5-bay building (at least) originally. Conjoined octagonal flagged floor to the hall section (R), mostly cemented over. Depressed-arched brick fireplace. The ceiling has finely stopped-chamfered main beam and joists of late C16 or early C17 character; C19 stick baluster stair. The parlour section (L) has residual stencilled decorative painting visible at frieze level in one corner; this consists of a cable-work border and is of the late C18 or early C19. The rubble section has beamed ceiling as before, with a wide fireplace having a flat, stopped-chamfered bressummer with the suggestion of an ogee cut to the centre. Stair recess to the R of the stack with the upper winders still in situ to the attic floor. Opposite the fireplace the box-framed external wall to the primary timber-framed building is visible, with later (C17) applied, moulded brackets and a boarded door.