The Church Room is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 August 2000. Church room.

The Church Room

WRENN ID
dusted-window-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 August 2000
Type
Church room
Address
The Church Room, Norton, Presteigne, LD8 2EL
OS grid reference
SO 304 669
Coordinates
52.2967, -3.02163
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church Room is a central building that was formerly a schoolroom, flanked by three attached two-storey houses on each side. It is constructed of grey stone with yellow brick dressings and features blue brick banding. The roofs are slate with decorative cresting and curvilinear bargeboards, and there are tall stone and brick chimneys.

The Church Room has a gable that projects forward from its hipped roof, featuring a window with two arched lights made of sash glazing and an oculus above. To the right of the doorway in the porch, there is an iron gate. Each side of the former schoolroom has a pair of houses with camber-headed doors that are set together. These houses also have camber-headed casement windows: two-light windows on the first floor that are positioned across the eaves, along with dormers, and three-light windows on the ground floor.

The outer houses on each end have taller half-hipped roofs and similar windows. The outermost bays are set back and have hipped roofs, each with a camber-headed doorway. The terrace generally features boarded doors, although No. 3 has a modern door, and No. 6 includes a 20th-century glazed porch.

Local climate

The Church Room 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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