Plas Hen

Of the Medieval house, only the 2 western bays, formerly the parlour and upper solar survive. In the latter space, a fine collar truss survives with trefoil and quatrefoil decoration, suggesting a late C15 date. Below, in the former parlour, moulded wall beams survive in a compartmented cellar access (created C18), and relate to this. The main range has walls of up to 4ft in thickness. Panelled hall c.1700, the panels have large-fields and moulded edges. Contemporary bolection moulded firplace to C16 lateral chimney, with moulded mantel shelf and panelled overmantel; 2 contemporary 2-panel doors with moulded architraves. To the R of the fireplace steps up to a boarded door leading to a corkscrew stair. Mid-late C16 post-and-panel screen to R wall of hall. The parlour, beyond, has C18 panelled windows plays and a moulded plaster cornice. Chamfered cross-beam (plastered over), probably third-quarter C16. Mid C18 6-paneldoor (raised and fielded) off the hall to the E.

Large L-shaped building of one-and-a-half storeys. Of rubble with old, steep slated roof. Later end chimneys with weather-coursing and further chimneys including lateral stacks to the rear. 6-bay N (garden) front with deeply-recessed entrance stepped-up slightly to bay 3; C20 15-pane glazed door. Slightly-recessed 16-pane casements to ground and first floors, those to the latter contained within unusually large rubble dormers with hipped roofs and slate-hung sides. The upper storey retains some external render. Bays 5 and 6 are slightly set back and are raised up above a basement; this with plain-glazed light to far bay (6) and boarded door to W gable. Here a first-floor corbelled balcony with French windows and plain iron balustrade. Beneath, the inscribed date 1921 and the initials HMR; further modern window above. 2 gabled, rendered projections to the rear, that to the L a stair with an adjoining stepped lateral chimney; that to the R is also a lateral chimney, though it is earlier. Both have moulded capping, that to the latter original and the other replaced. Small 4-pane casement to the stair projection. To the R an oversailing roof forms a canopy porch over an entrance; glazed door as before with C20 4-pane window in angled brick wall to R. Part slate-hung flat-roofed dormer above with tripartite 6-pane casement window.

Adjoining to the SE and forming the E range of an L with the primary block, an early C20 one-and-a-half storey wing. First-floor French windows in shallow hipped-roofed dormer giving onto a small slate balcony. This is carried on shaped corbels and has a plain iron balustrade. To the L a small 8-pane casement and to the R a 12-pane window in a hipped dormer as before; modern window to ground floor. Adjoining this range at right-angles and thereby enclosing a small court on the S side, a single-storey service block with rubble gable parapet and kneelers to W gable; weather-coursing at its junction with the E range. Open lobby to L with 3 boarded doors within. In the gable an oculus with 4-pane fixed light. Immediately to the SW of this and connected to the service range by a short stretch of rubble walling, a single-storey boiler house; mono-pitched slate roof to E section and flat roof of corrugated asbestos to W. Stable door with 4-pane window to R. Squat chimney to E section with capping and weather-coursing.

The enclosed court is slate-flagged and has dwarf walls and stepped access to the down-hill (W) side. Small circular building to N.