Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Clatterbrune and Clatterbrune West
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
- 52.27089, -2.99904
- Cadw reference
- 8856
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
Small country house in its own grounds.
History
Dated 1884, later additions.
Exterior
Arts and Crafts style (style of W E Nesfield). Main 2 storey and attic block with cross range to east, 1 storey plus attic extension to west.
Bullnosed rubble facings, free stone dressings, decorative tile hanging to east gables, roughcast gable to west. Tiled roofs (renewed to west), wide bargeboards, tall panelled and pilastered brick stacks with corbelled tops, iron work weather vane. Entrance front has stone mullioned and transomed hall and stair windows (leaded with coloured glazing), timber casements and assorted sash windows elsewhere.
Half-timbered entrance porch with bargeboards and pendant inscribed 1884 AG, timber arched entrance under crenellated tie-beam, panelled door under. Conservatory clasping SE corner.
Jettied E gable with decorative tile hanging, open work timber balcony cantilevered on massive stone brackets, French windows under. Corner supported by single timber pier with dated 1884 carved on wall post above. 1 storey summer house attached at SE corner. Similar detailing to gabled N front.
Reason for designation
Interiors not seen.
Nearby in the register
- Greenfield House, including gate Piers and RailingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St ThereseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The TempleDomesticunder 1 mi
- 26 Hereford StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.