The Old Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Manse
- WRENN ID
- tall-trefoil-quill
- 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
- The Old Manse, 10 Broad Street, Presteigne, LD8 2AD
- OS grid reference
- SO 314 644
- Coordinates
- 52.27375, -3.00552
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Manse is a tall three-storey building with a two-window gabled range that projects to the right and a two-storey one-window lateral range to the left. It is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings and features slate roofs, brick stacks, barge boards, and quoins with angle pilasters at the ground floor. The windows have lintels with keystones and cill brackets, with a bipartite window on the left and small bays at the ground floor. In the center, there is a pilastered door piece.
Local climate
The Old Manse 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 2019
- 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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