The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. Vicarage. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Vicarage

WRENN ID
fading-lime-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 March 1985
Type
Vicarage
Address
The Old Vicarage, Norton, Presteigne, LD8 2EN
OS grid reference
SO 304 673
Coordinates
52.29963, -3.02168
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Vicarage is a building designed in a Secular Gothic style, dating from the 19th century. It has two storeys and features coursed rubble facings with freestone dressings and slate roofs. The front has paired steep gables that project to the left, while a one storey plus attic section is set back to the right. The gables are adorned with ornamental bargeboards that have punched trefoils, and there is tiled ridge cresting along the roof. The tall masonry stacks have a tapering profile, and there is a dormer head with a pitched roof to the left, while the right gable end has a half-hipped treatment.

The windows are chamfered and come in one, two, and three-light configurations, all set under pointed relieving arches. The sashes feature wide pane glazing. The porch has a steeply pitched roof located in the return angle. The elevation facing the road includes a one storey plus attic section with steeply pitched dormer heads and a ground floor splayed bay.

Local climate

The Old Vicarage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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