Plas y Wern

Main c1670 range is roughcast with steep outswept valley roof, double hip on W side, moulded eaves cornice, and big stone W side wall stack with rebated angles and centre indent. Two storeys and basement. Roughly square plan with big C18 15-pane sashes. S front 3-window with C17 panelled door in right bay, with oval centre panel and moulded doorcase. C17 ornate scrolled consoles above, carrying later hipped slate hood. Timber pilasters also added. W side is windowless to right, two-window range to right. Rubble stone N wall with side-wall stone stack, gabled dormer to right. Basement door in ovolo-moulded timber frame to right, basement window to centre also ovolo-moulded, perhaps indicative of original mullion-and-transom form of main windows. Older range to E is rubble stone with slightly lower ridge line and massive C16 E end outside chimney. S front is three-storey, one-window, to extreme left, then outshut (possibly built out in C16), two-storey, two-window, the left projecting more than the right. Ovolo-moulded 3-light timber-mullion window to ground floor right, otherwise casements. In NE angle is two-storey section with lean-to roof against end of main house and N end stack. Battered walling indicates early date, possibly C16, but C19 door and windows. Beyond to N is 1936 lean-to unusually detailed with buttresses, and gabled section to right with bellcote.

Outstanding c1670 interiors, two main rooms ground floor rooms have bolection-moulded panelling, cornices and fireplaces. Dining room has heavily panelled plaster ceiling with centre circle and axial ribs, drawing room has lower relief ceiling details, centre oval, square-with-half-circles panel and outer border. Stairs are broad, dog-leg, with panelled newels, heavy moulded rail and twisted balusters. Four flights to attic. Plaster moulded undersides. First floor: S bedroom has similar panelling, N library has large early C18 panels. Bedroom has ceiling with deep plastered beams, four diagonals centred on a transverse beam. Rear wing has ground floor room with big timber-lintel fireplace at E end and off to N, a square stone stair winding around a centre square stone pier. This rises to the attic. Attic, music-room since 1936 with W gallery, has 3 collar-trusses with triple through-purlins. Collars are slightly arched and there is chamfering to the undersides and lower sides of blades.The roof-trusses are of late medieval type and relate to the earliest phase of the house, a possible first floor hall (RCHMW). The stair relates to existing floor levels so may be C16, or the whole may be C16. The block to the N contains the room (now bathroom) reputedly where Henry Tudor stayed. It may be a C16 parlour wing, much altered.