Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Coach-house and Stables at Norton Manor House
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Locality
- Norton
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29517, -3.03607
- Cadw reference
- 8940
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
To N of the Manor House and set at right angles to the entrance front.
History
Jacobethan style to match the house of 1858, architect not known.
Exterior
Symmetrical 1 storey range with 2 storey gabled cross ranges to ends and tall castellated tower to centre.
Rubble facings, ashlar dressings, slate roofs, gable parapets with finials, corbelled crenellation to tower with polygonal Gothic bellcote on roof, damaged clock face to 2nd floor.
Tudor dripmoulds to windows with cruciform mullions and small-pane glazing, flattened arched heads to boarded carriage arches and tower passage.
The building is derelict.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Norton Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Impton FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Long Barn and attached Byre Range at Old Impton FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former Dairy Building at Home Farm, Norton ManorAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.