Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Corte House (formerly Taylor's Farmhouse)
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
- 52.29780, -3.02089
- Cadw reference
- 8949
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 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.