Plas

Mid-late C18 vernacular house with C19 additions in idiosyncratic gothic style. The original house comprises a 2-storey, 3-window range with double-pile storeyed wing set at right angles to the rear. Advanced, taller, 2-storey, 3-window range to the right and advanced single storey wing set at right angles to the left. Entrance elevation to original house a symmetrically planned, 3-window range with central doorway. Built of rubble masonry, roughcast rendered, with sandstone dressings; slate roof with slightly projecting eaves, stone copings, a rendered stack at the left gable end and a globe finial at the right. Openings are recessed; the doorway with shallow rectangular fanlight with glazing bars and a half-glazed door with a single leaded light; windows are 12-pane sashes, with stone sills, the upper storey windows smaller and set under the eaves.

Advanced wing to the right is a 2-storey, 3-window range; with loggia to front, first floor balcony at right end and NE tower to rear abutting lean-to extension with gabled entrance and advanced single-storey gabled wing. Built of rubble masonry with sandstone dressings. Slate roof with slightly projecting eaves and scalloped red clay ridge tiles; crow-stepped gables with stone copings, rubble stacks with cornices; gable stacks and central ridge stack offset to right end. Front elevation a 3-window range with ground floor loggia on rubble piers extended at right end to form a verandah with first floor balcony above. Ground floor has french windows with louvred shutters, first floor has slightly recessed 3-light transomed and mullioned casement windows, the upper lights of decorative coloured glass. Left gable return with similarly detailed transomed and mullioned window of 2-lights above a 4-pane casement window with leaded hood. The right gable return has modern lights; central ground floor window with louvred shutters, first floor has 2 windows, that to left with stone 'trellised' balcony. A stone tablet set in the gable apex is inscribed with entwined initials E M and V and the date 1874. To the right, set at the NE corner of this wing, is a storeyed rectangular tower of rubble masonry with a tall hipped slate roof. The tower has a gable entrance with a narrow doorway with a shaped head under a large stone lintel; above the doorway is a diamond light with continuous string above. Diamond lights to first floor and slit lights to upper storey. Abutting the tower to the rear of the wing is a lean-to extension with gabled entrance; doorway with a shaped head and lintel with stressed lettering reading: PLAS TAN NAWDD DUW AI DANGNER (mansion under the patronage of God ...); a small recessed light in the gable apex above. Flanking the door are canted oriel windows of paired, mullioned, leaded lights; a single opening to the right is boxed in with chamfered panelling, 6-pointed stars pierced in upper panels. An advanced single storey gabled wing to the far right has a slate roof with red clay decorative ridge tiles and a dragon finial, and a large rubble stack to the rear.

To the left end of the original house is a single storey advanced gabled wing, with a further advanced bay window at the front gable, of 4 transomed and mullioned lights and a datestone of 1895 in the gable apex above. Pebble-dashed rendered; slate roof with red clay ridge tiles with gable finials, and a central rendered ridge stack with cornice. Entrance in the right hand return through a recessed panelled door with a shouldered head; right of the doorway are 3 tall round-headed lights.