Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Myrtle Cottage
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Presteigne, Powys, designated on 26 March 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27324, -3.00557
- Cadw reference
- 8859
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In two parts with gable ends to lane.
History
Probably C17, later alterations.
Exterior
2 storey 3 window roughcast cottage pair, partly modernised but retaining original studding and brick infill to walls. Tiled and slated roofs (steeper to No 2), bargeboards, brick stacks, rear stacks with tall rubble bases. Paired casements (3 to south elevation of No 1 and single window to gable end of No 2), boarded door under narrow hood.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- including Presteigne CraftsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 2 Hereford StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Red HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Duke's Arms PH including Off-Licence shopCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.