Plas Dolau is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 October 2002. Country house.
Plas Dolau
- WRENN ID
- nether-spindle-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 October 2002
- Type
- Country house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Plas Dolau is a country house featuring unpainted lined stucco and deep-eaved slate roofs. The original structure has an east-facing front that is two storeys high and consists of a three-window range, flanked by added one-bay projecting gabled wings. The ground floor has five French windows with marginal glazing bars and pointed glazing bars in the top lights, while the first floor features 12-pane sash windows in the wings and three 9-pane sash windows in the centre. The entrance is marked by a fine timber Roman Doric doorcase with a pediment and pilaster responds. Rendered brick double-shaft chimneys are located at the ends of the original house and on the outer side walls of the wings.
On the south wall of the south wing, there are two 9-pane sashes on the ground floor and one on the first floor to the right. The west end of this wing is gabled, with a hipped two-storey projection beneath the gable verge. The north wall of the north wing originally served as the entry to a coach-house, indicated by a lintel over the former opening. The rear west side features a six-panel door with an overlight set to the left. The rear of the main house has an outshut roof with a large paired brick chimney on the eaves to the left, along with a window and door on the ground floor to the left. Attached to the right is a long southwest rear wing with paired stacks on the ridge and at the west end. The north side of this wing, facing the rear yard, has a projection that partly overlaps the rear of the main outshut. There is a lean-to on the west end, and the four-window south side mainly consists of 9-pane sashes, with a door in the second bay from the left.
The interior has been altered from its original two-room plan with a central stair hall, as the left front room has been opened into the stair hall. The stair has lost its lowest treads but retains stick balusters, each with two square rings, a ramped rail, and thin bulbous newels. The stair hall cornice features rosettes between brackets. Some panelled shutters and six-panel doors date mostly from the late 19th century. There are 19th-century slate fireplaces in both original rooms; the one to the right is painted and has acanthus brackets and a centre panel, while the one to the left is panelled. An older six-panel door leads into the former garage in the north wing. A deep fireplace wall separates the left room from the south wing, which contains a third moulded slate fireplace with spiral twisted mouldings. The first floor has been significantly altered, but some older six-panel doors and earlier 19th-century fireplaces with roundels in the angles remain.
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