Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Gables
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
- 52.29697, -3.02222
- Cadw reference
- 8944
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
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.