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
8936
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/03/1985
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Courtyard Ranges at Upper Dolley House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Presteigne
Town
Locality
Easting
328421
Northing
265386
Street Side
Location
Approached down a side from Dolley Green and forming an L-plan group at the entrance to the house from W.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Probably early C17 box-framed range to south, later rubble-walled range set into slope by roadside.
Outer rubble wall with 2 raked buttresses to right of full-height opening, corrugated roof, weatherboarded gable-end and courtyard front with remains of loft doors and asserted ground floor openings. Simple tie-beam roof inside.
South range is 2 storeys with stud and infill walls, upper storey above original wall-plates. Slate roofs with wide eaves, collar and tie beam trusses inside with later timbers to support raised eaves, rubble footings. Full-height openings through range G left of centre (formerly with doors to threshing floor?). Small upper openings, glazed vertical lights to E end only, W end incorporated into rubble range along road. The building is partly decayed.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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