Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Corte House (formerly Taylor's Farmhouse)
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
- 52.29780, -3.02089
- Cadw reference
- 8949
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 from road with farm range forward to left.
Exterior
2 storey and attic late Georgian front, possibly older to rear. Roughcast with gable treatment to centre, slate roofs with bargeboards, end brick stacks.
3 windows (one to attic), double hung sashes with glazing bars. Solid rubble porch to centre with arched entry, blue brick dressings and timber-studding under.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Farm Range at Corte HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- The ForgeIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Bircher CloseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-Box at S.corner with Mynd Road, opposite parish churchyard B4355, Norton.Communicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.