Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
758
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/07/1966  
Date of Amendment
22/10/2002  
Name of Property
Plas Bennett  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Denbighshire  
Community
Llandyrnog  
Town
 
Locality
Plas Bennett  
Easting
310171  
Northing
364875  
Street Side
 
Location
½km south-west of the village of Llandyrnog; former farm buildings to rear  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
A house of c1700. When inspected the house was undergoing extensive restoration. A datestone of 1710 is reported.  

Exterior
Plas Bennet is a double-pile 2-storey 5-window house in Flemish Bond brickwork with stone dressings and slate roofs. The roof at front is concealed behind a coped parapet (reconstructed) which is slightly set back in panels corresponding to the window positions beneath. Plinth at front with a stone cavetto above a torus. Rusticated quoins. Brick end-chimneys to each pile. Sides and rear rendered; part of rear eaves lower; gabled projecting turret at rear. The front elevation is symmetrical with 12-pane hornless sash windows in exposed frames above and below; the window heads are flat arches formed of brick rubbers with fluted keystones; moulded sills. Three steps to the front door: eared architrave, pulvinated frieze, broken wavy pediment. The door is of 6 panels without overlight. Paired attic windows in each end wall. Dormer window at rear.  

Interior
Interior not inspected. Said to have good quality interiors; good dogleg staircase (cut bracketted string, fluted balusters, swept handrail with coil over curtail step), good doors and wainscotting.  

Reason for designation
A fine early C18 gentry status farmhouse which has retained its character  

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