Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wegnall Cottage
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 May 1972
- Locality
- Presteigne
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.26146, -2.99258
- Cadw reference
- 9332
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
Close by Hindwell Brook (marking the English border) and reached by an irregular farm track from the Presteigne to Kington road
History
Little altered timber-framed L-plan house dating from about 1600, possibly built by Hugh Rodd, brother of Richard Rodd of Hertordshire.
Exterior
2 storeys, rubble footings, close studding, 1st floor jettied with partly moulded jetty-beam on curved brackets. Infilled 1st floor doorway with arched lintol (2-storey porch now removed), main entrance with boarded and studded door. 2 windows wide, cantilevered 6-light oriels planted on bracket supports under cill beams, leaded lights. One 3-light window flush-set to left.
Currugated-iron roofs, massive rubble stack to right gable with 4 diagonal stems, smaller stack to left side. Lean-to rubble extensions to left and right ends.
Rear elevations with similar detailing, rear wing jettied over ground floor with corner brackets under beam (upper floors temporarily covered).
Interior
Internal plan-form has hall and kitchen on the main front separated by an entrance passage, and a parlour in the rear wing with a great chamber over. All the main rooms were heated by fireplaces of dressed stone, internal square-framed partition walls with wattle and daub infill, stop-chamfered joists, wooden bressumers, stairs in fireplace gable end etc.
Reason for designation
In progress of restortion from use as a farm store.
Nearby in the register
- Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St ThereseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Greenfield House, including gate Piers and RailingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Upper Broad Heath FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Clatterbrune and Clatterbrune WestDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.