Harley House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. House.
Harley House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-spire-hawk
- 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
- House
- Address
- Harley House, Presteigne, LD8 2AA
- OS grid reference
- SO 314 644
- Coordinates
- 52.27389, -3.00583
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Harley House is a wide, two-storey building from the mid-18th century, featuring a stucco front with end pilasters and a tiled roof with boxed eaves, but no cornice or entablature. The façade includes six irregularly spaced windows with plain reveals, double-hung sashes, and glazing bars. To the centre right, there is a doorpiece with fluted pilasters, foliage brackets supporting the cornice, a fluted frieze, and a six-panel door accessed by steps. There is a second door located at the far left, which has a tall fanlight above it. The interior is noted for having good stairs.
Local climate
Harley House 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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