Secondary House at Plas Chambres

Plas Chambres is an L-shaped, two-storey house featuring a timber-framed core with a red brick main range and a limestone rubble rear section. The house has a slate roof with lateral and end chimneys, the lateral ones being gabled and projecting, with offset dentilations at the base of the stack. The main façade faces a cobbled outer court and includes a central entrance with a boarded door in a pegged frame, topped by a tripartite overlight. To the right of the entrance is a window opening that was overgrown at the time of inspection, while to the left is a blocked-up window. The upper floor has two late 17th-century wooden cross-windows that break the eaves, set within gabled dormers. The northwest gable end, which faces the main house, shows signs of a former external stair with a first-floor entrance, now infilled with modern breeze blocks, and features a blocked entrance alongside a two-light mullioned window to the left of the stack. There is also an entrance with a boarded door to the rubble section, which has a 16-pane 19th-century sash window above it, and a modern garage lean-to to the right.

Inside, the house contains two pairs of cruck blades embedded in the walls, suggesting it was originally a five-bay structure. The hall section on the right has a conjoined octagonal flagged floor, mostly covered with cement, and a depressed-arched brick fireplace. The ceiling features a finely stopped-chamfered main beam and joists dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, along with a 19th-century stick baluster staircase. The parlour section on the left has remnants of stencilled decorative painting visible at frieze level in one corner, which includes a cable-work border from the late 18th or early 19th century. The rubble section retains a beamed ceiling similar to the main house, with a wide fireplace that has a flat, stopped-chamfered bressummer and a suggestion of an ogee cut at the centre. There is a stair recess to the right of the stack, with the upper winders still in place leading to the attic floor. Opposite the fireplace, the box-framed external wall of the primary timber-framed building is visible, featuring later 17th-century applied moulded brackets and a boarded door.