Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Vicarage
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
- 52.29961, -3.02168
- Cadw reference
- 8953
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
On an eminence above the road to N of the churchyard.
History
Possibly by Sir G G Scott at the time of the church rebuilding (1868).
Exterior
Secular Gothic style. 2 storeys, coursed rubble facings, freestone dressings, slate roofs. Paired steep gables forward to left, one storey plus attic set back to right. Ornamental bargeboards with punched trefoils, tiled ridge cresting, tall masonry stacks of tapering profile, dormer head with pitched roof to left, half-hipped treatment to right gable end.
Chamfered 1-, 2- and 3-light windows under pointed relieving arches, sashes with wide pane glazing, steeply pitched roof to porch in return angle. One storey plus attic elevation to road with steeply pitched dormer heads and ground floor splayed bay.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Norton Mound And Bailey CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Norton Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.