Plymouth House

Rendered walls, presumably over local limestone rubble, with Welsh slate gabled roof with old slates on the rear pitch; two pairs of old tall square stone stacks with capping to rear pitch; formerly a lateral stack to front elevation with blocked-in windows beside it. Two storeys and attic. Five bay front or south elevation with modern transomed and mullioned 2-light wood casements with 2 over 6 panes in each light. The building is very obscured by trees and is difficult both to see and describe as a result. The left hand wing of the building is disused and has blocked windows. From west end, firstly and secondly, a window both above and below; third or central bay with similar windows including one to attic storey with C19 fretted bargeboarded gable and part finial. Fourthly, similar window on first floor above later slate roofed lean-to porch with wide boarded door, before join with C17 wing; fifthly, window above and below. Steeply pitched roof with stone verges, gable stacks at either end. West gable end with plastered cladding to stone wall; above lean-to, early window openings with dripstones; chamfered rounded headed window to attic storey. East gable with window to each floor. Rear elevation with damaged later rear wing, otherwise obscured.

'In two of the roof trusses the extended feet of the principals are curved, while the cambered collar has, on its soffit, the mortices and peg-holes for former arch-braces with corresponding holes and seating on the principals; the two through-purlins on each side have been renewed, but reused material in the roof includes a chamfered purlin with indications of intermediate pegged rafters or narrower bays than at present. Other trusses have lap-jointed collars with notched ends pegged to the principals.' (RCAHMW)