Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
23939
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/08/2000
Date of Amendment
17/08/2000
Name of Property
4 The Terrace
Address
4 The Terrace
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Presteigne
Town
Presteigne
Locality
Norton
Easting
330425
Northing
266992
Street Side
E
Location
On E side of road, about 250m S of St Andrew's Church.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
1871. Built as village school and 6 estate houses for Norton Manor Estate. The central former school later became the Village Hall, and has 3 houses to each side. The school replaced an earlier building of 1834, in the churchyard, which was demolished around time of restoration of St Andrew's.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
An unusual and almost unaltered piece of C19 estate village planning.
Group Description
Nos 1 to 6 The Terrace and The Church Room, Norton.
Central Church Room (former schoolroom) with 3 attached 2-storey houses to each side. Grey stone with yellow brick dressings,and blue brick banding; slate roofs with cresting, curvilinear bargeboards; tall stone and brick chimneys. At centre, Church Room gable breaks forward of hipped roof; window of 2 arched lights (sash glazing) with superimposed oculus; doorway in porch to R has iron gate. To each side of former schoolroom, a reflected pair of houses with camber-headed doors set together, and, to each side, camber-headed casement windows, 2-light to first floor set across eaves and with dormers, and 3-light windows to ground floor. To each end, outer houses have taller half-hipped roofs; similar windows; then outermost bays, set back, with hipped roofs, have camber-headed doorway. Generally boarded doors to terrace (but No 3 has a modern door). No 6 has C20 glazed porch.
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