Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Warden Court
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
- 52.27462, -3.00764
- Cadw reference
- 8914
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
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.