Harford House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. House.
Harford House
- WRENN ID
- little-courtyard-mist
- 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
- Harford House, Presteigne
- OS grid reference
- SO 314 643
- Coordinates
- 52.2729, -3.00615
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Harford House is a late 16th century to early 17th century timber-framed building that has undergone later alterations. It features two storeys and an attic with roughcast walls. The front facing Hereford Street has a gable with bargeboards and a finial on the left side, while the right side has deep boxed-out eaves and slate roofs.
On the first floor, there are three windows, including one pair and one tripartite arrangement, all of which are sashes with thick glazing bars. A small casement window is located in the attic. The building has a projecting shop front with a cantilevered fascia and heavy fluted pilasters.
The elevation facing Station Road includes gabled dormers set in a steep slated roof, a large stone stack at the mid-roof aligned with a set-back in the wall below, and a smaller lateral brick chimney to the right. There is a small door under a hood situated in the angle of the chimney. The rear of the building displays painted studding.
Local climate
Harford House 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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