Plealey House, Plealey village

Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 20 May 2024

A Grade II listed building, with all the details here: Farmhouse, now divided into 2 houses. Probably C17 with later re-modelling. Rendered brick probably concealing timber frame, slate roofs. Original plan a hall with cross-wing to north-east; later in C17 another cross-wing was added to south-west and in early C19 a gabled wing to north of original cross- wing with stables attached to left. 2 storeys with attics to cross-wings; irregular fenestration, all mid- to late C19 two- and 3-light casements to hall below eaves with cross-paned sashes beneath, left-hand cross-wing has one 3- light casement and one fixed-light window to first floor with cross-paned sash beneath to left; right-hand cross-wing with one 3-light casement to first floor and a cross-paned sash to ground; entrance through gabled porches on right of left-hand cross-wing and to left of right-hand cross-wing; prominent red brick ridge stack with triangular pilaster shafting to base to right of hall with a re-built stack at junction of hall and left-hand cross- wing; projecting purlin and wall-plate ends to gables. Stables: timber framed, with red brick infill on high brick plinth; 2 rectangular panels from sill to wall-plate (north side); roughly central stable door flanked by casement and one fixed-light window, all with segmental heads, subsidiary entrance to left, slate roof. Nice.

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