@JuergenAuer It's great to know its possible, thanks.
OK, the closest I found to what you meant was here:
and here:
For anyone following on behind me it was this comment that really helped:
After assigning a Let's Encrypt certificate to a subdomain just go to Tools & Settings > SSL/TLS Certificates
Find the option Certificate for securing Plesk and click on [Change] button right to it.
Choose the certificate assigned to subdomain and click OK .
I followed the instructions and I used the Let's Encrypt Certificate I had installed on one of my own domains and I assigned it to the server and also to secure the mail.
So now I no longer access the server insecurely via its IP address i.e. http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8443
but instead securely like so: https://example.com:8443
Thanks very much, guys, I couldn't have fixed it without your help!
Cheers.