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Castle Road, PRESTEIGNE, LD8 2EB

Many lampposts in this road have these signs. This side says "Police Notice. A court appearance could affect your life". One of the other sides says "Police Notice. Violence > Arrest > Court" and the third side shows a picture of a CCTV. Not sure I would want to see this out of my bedroom window every morning, but I assume they are at this height to prevent them being removed. As a visitor to this attractive town, I found this rather disconcerting, but I concluded that this must be the 'naughty street' and the occupants were being watched and warned.

One of the 'back streets', running north towards Warden.

Looking north-west along Joe Deakins Road with Slough Road going off to the left.

The Radnorshire Arms Hotel is an impressive timber-framed building on the High Street in Presteigne. The date over the entrance is 1616 though the blue plaque on the building informs that this was the home of Sir Christopher Hutton, a favourite of Elizabeth I; she died in 1603, and he died in 1591. According to the Pevsner guide it was 'possibly built for John Bradshaw'.

Presteigne with Vintage cars

Wondrous timber-framed inn, dated 1616 over the front door.

17th century inn with a large 19th century hotel extension, on this side finished in black and white, although the rear of the building is stone and roughcast. The whole is Listed Grade II*.

The earliest part of the Radnorshire Arms Hotel is timber framed and was built circa 1616 with close studding with whitewashed infill, and a small jetty to the street with a timber porch, all under a slate roof. There is a modern lean-to extension in matching style to the right. There is a twin gabled rear addition, possibly circa 1875, with a black and white treatment to the street and to the garden with a rubble stone rear wall, roughcast rendered, all under slate roofs. Some original 17th century features and some 19th century panelling survives. First opened as an Inn in 1792. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=8888 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.

The old stone building in a state of dereliction proudly supports a weather vane. There is an Ordnance Survey cut benchmark on one of the lower quoins on the south corner, southeast face of the stone building, adjacent to the corrugated iron garage (detail photograph Image).