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High Street, PRESTEIGNE, LD8 2BB

Pub at the NE end of High Street. I don't know if the line of parked vehicles indicates the Royal Oak's popularity or merely a convenient place to park...

Numbers 1, 2 and 3 Warden View, High Street is a later 19th century block of houses. Built of red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings to the front and side with a rubble stone rear wall, all under a slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=8887 Presteigne is a market town, set on the south bank of the River Lugg, some 19 miles northwest of Hereford and 16 miles east of Llandrindod Wells. The Welsh/English border wraps around three sides of the town, which probably began as a small settlement around a Minster church. Formerly the county town of the historic county of Radnorshire, it remains quiet, picturesque and unspoilt.

Viewed across the B4356 from the corner of Warden Road. Part of the Southern Area of the Shropshire and Marches Methodist Circuit, the chapel was built in the 1860s. The hall on the right was added in 1888 as a school room.

A cut above the usual bench, the inscription reads "In loving memory of Nigel Powell ("Nige") Many a pint or two drank here putting the world to rights! A true legend"

Nineteenth century red brick is uncommon in Presteigne https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=8887

The chapel is dated 1867, the hall 1888. Although not indicated on the inscription over the entrance, this was built by the Primitive Methodists. Listed Grade II for group value.

See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4929116 for location.

The church was built as a Methodist chapel in 1867. Constructed, in a Gothic style, of rubble stone with ashlar dressings under a slate roof. The church hall, to the right, in similar style, is dated 1888. The forecourt has rubble stone walls with fine pinnacled gate piers with iron railings and gate. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=8921 Presteigne is a market town, set on the south bank of the River Lugg, some 19 miles northwest of Hereford and 16 miles east of Llandrindod Wells. The Welsh/English border wraps around three sides of the town, which probably began as a small settlement around a Minster church. Formerly the county town of the historic county of Radnorshire, it remains quiet, picturesque and unspoilt.