Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ford View (formerly Old Bridge Inn)
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27532, -3.00346
- Cadw reference
- 8831
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Adjoining St Andrew's Churchyard on N side and close to Lugg bridge.
Exterior
L-shaped block with 2 storey later C16/early C17 timber framed building to street, roughcast front jettied on curved brackets over ground floor. Slate roof, rubble stack in stages to right gable end. 3 windows wide, C19 sashes in flush frames, one tripartite on ground floor to right. Matching splayed bays with bracket cornices flank modern entrance.
Roughcast gable end to churchyard with C18 rubble range joined at right angles.
2 storeys, 2 windows, stone slab roof, casements with horizontal glazing and boarded door in lower link building.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Lugg BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Tan HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 20&21 Broad StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fold FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.