Plas Ffynnon

Plas Ffynnon is a mid-Victorian, two-storey house built in 1877 as the vicarage for St. Mary's Parish Church in Tudorbethan style. It is attributed to the architect John Douglas of Chester. The house is constructed of brown brick with red brick and sandstone detailing, and has a steeply-pitched tiled roof with oversailing eaves and a plain ridge. The asymmetrical facade features an advanced, two-storey gabled porch with moulded purlin-ends, brackets, and a plain finial. The Tudor-arched entrance is made of tooled ashlar, stopped and moulded, with the date 1877 carved in the spandrels. A brick label is returned and continued as a string-course around the sides. The upper storey is corbelled out to the left in two stages with ashlar detailing, and includes a five-light brick-mullioned window with two panes per light, and dentilated corbelling above. Single lights are located to the left of the porch on both storeys, with the lower one being leaded. The porch has a red and black quarry tiled floor and an eight-panelled door, with the upper six panels being leaded, and flanking part-leaded, part-panelled sections.

To the right of the porch, a large lateral chimney rises, staggered with tripartite stacks and a diagonally-set shaft in the centre. A modern window has been inserted to the left at first floor level. To the left of the porch is a conventional stack with similar detailing, and a two-light window follows to the right of the lateral chimney, with plain label and cill courses that return around the right (south) face. A moulded and dentilated string-course is present at first floor level, returning as before. To the left of the porch is an eight-light mullioned and transomed window with a stone transom and leaded upper lights, and a six-pane, three-light window above. A buttress rises from the ground floor with tile and stone capping, continuing vertically to the eaves as an offset brick shaft. String courses, labels, and cill courses are also present. To the left of the buttress are five-light windows on both floors.

At the rear of the house is an advanced gabled bay to the left, with four-, six-, and eight-light windows. A large early 20th-century cross-wing addition is located to the right, built in a similar but simplified style. The north and south gable ends have decorative brickwork to the upper, rendered gables. To the north is a contemporary ground floor extension with a hipped roof and a modern window. The interior features pine joinery, mostly now painted, including six-panelled doors with moulded stiles and rails. A wooden, shouldered chimney-piece with moulded brackets is found in the dining room, and a one-and-a-half turn staircase has acorn finials to the newels and panelled sides, alongside a small gallery above. The house is listed as a finely detailed and largely unaltered Victorian vicarage attributed to John Douglas.