Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Warden Court
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
- 52.27462, -3.00764
- Cadw reference
- 8914
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
History
Substantial late Georgian detached house, probably with earlier origins.
Exterior
2 storey 4 window roughcast front to St David's Street, cantilevered bays to ends of 1st floor, segmental heads to ground floor windows, sashes with glazing bars. Pilastered doorpiece with panelled reveals, panelled door, ironwork bracket over. Assorted brick work and rubble gable ends with timber studding to buildings at rear yard. Front towards High Street is also 2 storeys and roughcast with higher elevation to 3 right hand bays, over lapping hipped slate roofs, tall brick stacks. 4 windows, sashes with glazing bars in plain reveals, iron work canopy with fretwork panels to overall ground floor verandeh. Flush frames to sash windows on SE elevation to right.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding and Boundary Wall to NE of Warden CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Walls at Warden CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Bull HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- St. David's HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.