Old Mansion House

The Old Mansion House is a two-storey, three-gabled building with a rendered front, dating from the early 17th century. It was originally part of the 'Great House' of the Crowther Family, with Brian Crowther serving as High Sheriff of Radnorshire in 1639 and 1645. The house was originally twice its current size and featured a porch on the right side, but it was divided up in the early 20th century.

The building has a stone tiled roof and a brick stellar chimney stack, which is said to have an inscription dating to 1639, along with one brick and one rubble stack at the rear. The 19th-century cusped bargeboards are similar to those on the adjoining buildings. The broad gable on the right projects forward towards the street and features plain pilaster strips, a two-light casement window on the first floor, and an early 19th-century shop front with two nine-pane windows flanking a blocked entrance, topped with a bracket cornice on pilasters. There is a glazed door on the return elevation of this wing. The middle bay is set back with a narrow gable, featuring a 12-pane 17th-century transomed window on the first floor and a 20th-century shop front below; this area was originally a two-storey porch, similar to the Radnorshire Arms in Presteigne.

The entrance is now located between the central and left gables, featuring a half-glazed door under a flat hood. The left gable has two four-pane sash windows on the first floor that are flush with the front, and one three-light window on the ground floor. The property is enclosed by an iron-railed forecourt.

Inside, the house retains much of its 17th and 18th-century panelling, particularly in the sitting room, which was formerly the entrance hall. The wide reconstructed 17th-century staircase is located at the rear, and there is a first-floor room above the porch that was previously a school room, featuring a fluted frieze around the chimney piece. The ground floor dining room includes early to mid-18th-century panelling, doors, and a corner cupboard, with lugged surrounds and a stone arched chimneypiece.