Description

ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. PLAS WARREN
SJ 33 NW
3/149 Plas Warren Hall
- (formerly listed as Plas Warren)
27.5.53
GV II
Manor house, now farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18 incorporating
earlier building; later additions and alterations. Red brick on
sandstone plinth encapsulating timber frame, partly exposed to rear;
slate roofs. Basic H-plan comprising long hall range of central
baffle-entry type with gabled cross-wings, that to left having twin-
gabled range to right on rear; mid-C19 additions to rear of left cross-
wing. 2 storeys and formerly gable-lit attics with floor bands, toothed
to first floor, plain corner piers to cross-wings and moulded stone eaves
cornice carried up as coped verges to gables of cross-wings. 2:3:2
windows, segmental-headed C19 cross windows, blind to centre on first floor.
Blind roundels to gables of cross-wings. Central C20 gabled red brick
porch with contemporary glazed door. Central red brick ridge stack and
prominent external lateral stacks to cross-wings, left with stone quoins.
Right cross-wing has prominent stepped external end stack to rear with
dentilled band to top of base and raised lozenge-shaped pattern below;
3 attached and rebated shafts with projecting strips to sides. Timber
frame (rectangular panels with short straight brace) visible to left side
of cross-wing to rear, leaded casement on first floor. Catslide outshut
to hall range between it and twin-gabled range. Coped verges on carved
stone kneelers to rear gable of right cross-wing and also to twin-gabled
range. Mid-C19 service range and stables attached to read of left cross-
wing. Interior. Timber framed cross walls: wall posts visible but
remainder covered at time of resurvey (March 1987). Wide dog-leg
staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Ridge stack has
inglenook fireplace with segmental chamfered wooden lintel to ground floor to right
and C19 Jacobean-style overmantel to left. Some C17 panelling and
several panelled doors with H- and L-hinges.

Listing NGR: SJ3382438873

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471414

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide