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Plealey, Pontesbury, SHREWSBURY, SY5 0UY

A well kept house and outbuildings.

For Bert Hartshorn, who lived all his life in Plealey, living and working there and passing on in 2000. Thanks Bert, nice spot for lunch.

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.

Plealey village Scene

Some really nice old houses in this village.

We paused here for lunch and the sun did try to provide some warm sunlight, and nearly made it. Two horses grazed under blankets nearby.

This lovely house caught my eye. Lovely place. If I won the lottery I would live somewhere like here. Stables out the back. I can picture the interior in my mind's eye; elegant staircase off an entrance hall, large kitchen with Aga or Rayburn, a library maybe, a drawing room, a grand piano near some French windows, and someone playing some Debussy...a blackbird singing outside and a Corgi in her basket. Bread baking, coffee brewing and Radio 4 on in the kitchen, maybe Women's Hour.... Nice. That gate is a poor choice I think. Anyway, on I went...

All the usual notices and posters. And a working Victorian postbox.