Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Courtyard Ranges at Upper Dolley House
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
- 52.28194, -3.05067
- Cadw reference
- 8936
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Approached down a side from Dolley Green and forming an L-plan group at the entrance to the house from W.
Exterior
Probably early C17 box-framed range to south, later rubble-walled range set into slope by roadside.
Outer rubble wall with 2 raked buttresses to right of full-height opening, corrugated roof, weatherboarded gable-end and courtyard front with remains of loft doors and asserted ground floor openings. Simple tie-beam roof inside.
South range is 2 storeys with stud and infill walls, upper storey above original wall-plates. Slate roofs with wide eaves, collar and tie beam trusses inside with later timbers to support raised eaves, rubble footings. Full-height openings through range G left of centre (formerly with doors to threshing floor?). Small upper openings, glazed vertical lights to E end only, W end incorporated into rubble range along road. The building is partly decayed.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Upper Dolley HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dolley FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ackill HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Discoed Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.