Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brecon House
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, designated on 26 August 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1981
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88302, -5.26957
- Cadw reference
- 12568
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on NW side of road leading NE from Cathedral Close towards Pont y Penyd, between The Archdeaconry and The Canonry.
History
1820-21 by William Owen of Haverfordwest for the Archdeacon of Brecon. The house was rebuilt by W Owen of Haverfordwest, but the final account is signed "measured and examined, J W Maund, architect, Brecon", who may have had a hand in the design. The cost was £931/19/0+d. It replaces a fine C16 house described by E Yardley in mid C18 as having a 'hansome hall reching up to ye roof', and by Jones and Freeman as having had a remarkable large porch with sculpted shields and other devises. One carved escutcheon was extant in 1976.
Exterior
Roughcast unpainted two-storey, three-window front with low-pitched slate eaves roof, raised plinth and central front door reached by double flight of four stone steps with plain iron handrail. 12-pane sashes with slate sills, flush-panelled 6-panel door with traceried fanlight in painted, panelled, round-arched reveal; thin painted timber pilasters each side to semicircular painted timber hood on paired carved brackets. Plain 3-window W side elevation, a later C19 bay window removed since 1981. NE service range, set back.
Interior
Panelled doors, shutters, contemporary staircase, C19 fireplaces.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Front Garden Wall & Gatepiers & Gate to Brecon HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach House to Brecon HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Arch Deaconry (The Archdeacon of St David's House)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Coach House to The Arch DeaconryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.