Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Coach House to Brecon House
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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, -5.26916
- Cadw reference
- 12569
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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
- Treasury CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Front Garden Wall & Gatepiers & Gate to Brecon HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Front Garden Wall to the CanonryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Treasurer's HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.