Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bach House
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Presteigne, Powys, designated on 26 March 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.31027, -3.02690
- Cadw reference
- 8954
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
Remotely situated by a stream in Bach Dingle and reached by a steep road Meeting House Lane to N of Norton Village.
Exterior
Probably C17, enlarged in C18 and subsequently refronted. 2 storey rubble entrance front with a vertical joint, plane pitched slate roof with low end stacks, projecting chimney breast to left end. Modern large timber windows with casements, timber-framed porch with slate roof, triangular head to boarded door. Left (E) gable end retains timber-framing of two periods with brick infill (box-frame below with close studding and angle braces over). The extending rear roof with tall brick stack indicates the scale of original building before enlargement, lean-to extension clasping chimney-breast.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding at Bach HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Norton Mound And Bailey CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.