Courtyard Ranges at Upper Dolley House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. House.
Courtyard Ranges at Upper Dolley House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-vault-auburn
- 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
- Courtyard Ranges at Upper Dolley House, Presteigne
- OS grid reference
- SO 284 653
- Coordinates
- 52.28195, -3.05067
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Courtyard Ranges at Upper Dolley House are likely an early 17th-century box-framed structure located to the south, alongside a later rubble-walled range that is set into the slope by the roadside. The outer rubble wall features two raked buttresses to the right of a full-height opening, a corrugated roof, and a weatherboarded gable end. The courtyard front shows remains of loft doors and ground floor openings. Inside, there is a simple tie-beam roof.
The south range consists of two storeys with stud and infill walls, and the upper storey is positioned above the original wall plates. It has slate roofs with wide eaves, collar and tie beam trusses inside, and later timbers that support the raised eaves, resting on rubble footings. There are full-height openings through the range to the left of center, which may have once had doors leading to a threshing floor. The eastern end features small upper openings with glazed vertical lights, while the western end is incorporated into the rubble range along the road. The building is partly decayed.
Local climate
Courtyard Ranges at Upper Dolley House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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