Plas yn y pentre is a Grade II* listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 June 1952. A Early Modern House.

Plas yn y pentre

WRENN ID
tattered-spindle-briar
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 June 1952
Type
House
Period
Early Modern
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Plas yn y pentre is a house of timber-frame construction, originally dating back to the 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The main part of the house is a two-story, three-bay section, featuring an exposed timber box frame with small square panels and lime-washed wattle-and-daub infill. It has a slate roof and a brick axial chimney stack set on a stone base. This central section is complemented by projecting three-story gabled wings, with jettied upper floors supported by decorated brackets. A porch with open balustered sides and plank boarding projects from the western wing.

The house displays a range of restored windows, including a 12-light window to the ground floor of the central section, a 6-light window to the ground floor of the east wing, and 6 and 8-light windows to the upper floors. Decorative quatrefoil motifs are incorporated into the second-floor panelling on the projecting gables and central dormer. The inscription 'I E 1634' is carved into the bressumer of the jettied section of the western wing.

The eastern gable elevation is also timber-framed, with 10-light windows on the ground and first floors, along with three single-light windows in the gable itself. The junction between the east projecting wing and the gable suggests a later addition. A projecting wing on the north side appears to have been added later to the original 17th-century block, with another gabled dormer window over the rear stairs. A stout, rendered chimney stack is situated in the northeast corner, between the north wing and the main block. A single-storey wing, incorporating a dining room with a roof dormer, was added to the west side of the original block.

Inside, a recessed doorway leads from the porch to a passage, formerly partitioned, and into a living room, which contains a bevelled and moulded beam. The living room likely occupies the site of the original “hall”. Thick partition walls and a substantial chimney stack, containing back-to-back fireplaces, are likely later additions, dividing the living room and parlour. A wide, blocked-in fireplace is present in the living room. The parlour features a bevelled and moulded beam, and a "Jacobean" plaster ceiling with low relief moulded patterns. Simple stairs are located at the rear of the house. The dining room wing, to the west of the passage, was likely built on the site of original service rooms.

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