The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. Cottage.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
standing-floor-dust
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
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Norton, Presteigne
OS grid reference
SO 304 668
Coordinates
52.29498, -3.02131
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Cottage is a two-storey, L-shaped ornamental cottage dating from the 18th century. It features rubble facings with freestone dressings and slate roofs adorned with bargeboards and finials. The cottage has a small cross gable on the advanced central bay and stone stacks with tall diagonal brick stems. The front has three two-light Tudor windows, while the rear has a three-light window, all under rectangular dripmoulds with cruciform mullions and small-pane glazing. There is a pitched roof over a solid porch, which has a triangular head above the doorway; the window above the door has been altered.

Local climate

The Cottage 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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