Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Gables
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Norton, Presteigne, Powys, designated on 26 March 1985.
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
- 52.29697, -3.02222
- Cadw reference
- 8944
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
Set back and slightly above the road.
Exterior
Originally the lower house to Norton Manor and of similar Jacobethan design.
About 1860. Large 3 storey 4-bay gabled house with rubble facings and freestone dressings, steep slate roofs with bargeboards, chimney stacks with tall stellar-shaped brick stems, outer bays slightly advanced. Rectangular dripmoulds, small paired casements to top floor, cruciform frames to lower floors small pane glazing. Small bay to left end, solid porch with triangular headed doorway and pitched roof to left of centre.
Nearby in the register
- 1 The TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 The TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 The TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Church RoomReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.