Plas Hendy

Plas Hendy is a small country house built in the Edwardian domestic revival style. It is two storeys with an attic and comprises a near L-plan arrangement. The main body faces west with a slightly projecting crosswing to the right and a long service wing of almost equivalent size to the main house on the left, these enclosing an entrance court.

The ground floor is constructed of coursed rock-faced grey Forest of Dean stone with cambered-headed windows, stone voussoirs and sills. The first floor is whitewashed roughcast with flush small windows, half-timbered overhanging gables, and red tiled roofs with dormers and tall shaped red brick chimneys. The fenestration is characterised by long windows with small-paned top-lights over plate glass casements on the ground floor, small-paned casements to the first floor, small-paned canted oriels under gables, and dormers with small-paned canted sides and little painted wood pediments. Red-brown paint adorns the bargeboards on curved brackets, the vertical studding and cambered tie-beams in the gables, the dormer pediments, a continuous timber pulvinated band between the main floors, and the rainwater goods.

The main front has a left-of-centre porch projection with one-window range and dormer aligned each side. The porch features a Tudor arched doorway with ashlar flush quoins, lintel and deep hoodmould. The lintel is carved with sexfoil panels and a coat-of-arms. The first floor has a small canted oriel under a tile-hung low gable. At the right end, the short crosswing displays elaborate decorative timbering to its gable over a canted oriel, with a blank ground floor.

To the left, the kitchen wing has a long roof and west gable with half-timber over a canted oriel. On the south side facing the courtyard, there is a single casement at the extreme left and a triple casement at the extreme right on the first floor. The ground floor has two 8-pane windows and a door on the left, and a pair of casements on the right.

The south end crosswing has a truncated brick chimney on the roof at the left and a dormer set high near the ridge at the right. The first floor has only one pair of casements, left of centre. The ground floor has a long window to the left and a large canted flat-roofed bay of 2-2-2 lights.

The east garden front has two brick chimneys just below the ridge—the left diagonal-fronted and the right square with four shafts—with a dormer between. A gable at each end, that to the left slightly lower and smaller, each with a canted oriel. Left of centre is a large stair light of 3x3 4-pane lights, and right of centre a triple casement. The ground floor has a French window with top-lights to the left, a centre door with a small window just to its left, a long window right of centre, and a large 4-light French window to the right, also with top-lights. A datestone sits at the far right corner.

The north service façade has a half-timbered gable left of centre, not overhanging, with two diagonally-shafted chimneys on the roof slope to the right and a dormer to the left. The first floor has casement pairs to the left and right of the gable, and two large windows of 3-over-3 4-pane lights, one set slightly higher under a gable beam and one to the right. The ground floor has a large square flat-roofed kitchen bay under the gable with a cambered-headed 4-light window and top-lights, a single light with top-light on each side, a pair of casements set low, and a large 3-light window with top-lights further to the right. A small open timber-framed and tiled passage runs north from beside the kitchen bay to a single-storey hipped red brick outbuilding containing a coal-house, laundry, and bread-oven. The outbuilding has a timber arcade to its front with three doors, a chimney at the west end, and four windows to the rear.

Internally, a half-glazed inner door from the porch leads into a stair hall with a stick baluster stair on the rear wall with a short south return. The square newels have tops with reversed bell-pull grips, and white painted panelling runs below the main flight and along the stair dado. The corner southeast room features 17th-century style moulded plasterwork to the ceiling borders of the type favoured by the Arts and Crafts movement, with a painted wood fireplace with turquoise tiles. North of the stair hall is a study, a small room with a painted fireplace with red tiles. The northeast dining room has a fireplace with blue tiles and a simple cornice. The first floor southeast corner bedroom has a fireplace with green tiles and an Art Nouveau iron grate. The southwest room has a similar fireplace with red tiles. A bathroom is positioned over the porch. The loft is accessed by dog-leg stairs and contains rooms with iron fireplaces and also coloured tiles.