Corte House (formerly Taylor's Farmhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. House.

Corte House (formerly Taylor's Farmhouse)

WRENN ID
lapsed-lintel-woodpecker
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
Corte House (formerly Taylor's Farmhouse), Norton, Presteigne
OS grid reference
SO 304 671
Coordinates
52.29782, -3.02089
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Corte House, formerly known as Taylor's Farmhouse, is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a late Georgian front that may be older at the rear. The exterior is roughcast with a gable treatment at the center, and it has slate roofs with bargeboards and brick stacks at each end. The house has three windows, including one in the attic, which are double hung sashes with glazing bars. At the center, there is a solid rubble porch with an arched entry, blue brick dressings, and timber-studding underneath.

Local climate

Corte House (formerly Taylor's Farmhouse) 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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