Plas y Wenallt is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2004. A C19 House.

Plas y Wenallt

WRENN ID
shadowed-cobble-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2004
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

House, painted C20 render with slate eaves roofs. Two storeys, the original 3-bay house surviving to right with large later C19 extensions to form a roughly cruciform plan. Original house has N front with right end C19 corniced stack and C19 overhanging eaves on right gable end. Front has hornless 12-pane sashes and centre original 6-panel door with radiating-bar fanlight in rectangular frame. Altered columned porch has original columns and half-column responds, the flat top simplified in C20. A wing at right angles comes forward to left with two 12-pane sashes each floor, C20 concrete sills. N end wall has door with overlight and 12-pane sash to first floor left. Marks of an outbuilding that continued N. E side is outshut with chimney on roof slope, rubble stone E wall with ground floor openings. Rear S has one bay of original house to left with ground floor sash (another above blocked), and then broad gabled projection with side-wall long stair light to left and sash each floor right. S front has deep eaves, small 12-pane attic sash, large 12-pane first floor sash and 2 larger 12-pane ground floor windows. Stone sills. Right side wall has side-wall chimney, 12-pane sash over lean-to timber porch, the roof hipped to left. Within porch are bench seats on 2 sides and 6-panel door into house. One-bay range to right has roof hipped to SE, one first floor hornless 12-pane sash and ground floor projection with lean-to roof and triple window (to office), the roof joining porch roof to left at right angles. Office window has fixed panes to side lights and 12-pane sash to centre, plain rendered piers.

Entrance hall enlarged in late C19, room to right remains of early house with 6-panel early C19 door, windows with panelled shutters on front and back walls and 2 round arched shelf recesses with architraves, small acanthus-leaf rose in roundel to ceiling. Late C19 staircase to rear in extended hall, opened to include former front left room, shutters remain. Four-panel door to large rear drawing room. Office, used as estate office, has massive safe by S Willens of W Bromwich and separate entry from rear porch. First floor has some earlier C19 6-panel doors, to W room, centre room and 2 to linen cupboards.

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