Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Belle Vue Road
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94995, -3.38730
- Cadw reference
- 6813
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
Opposite Mount Street Infants' School.
History
Late C17 origins to C18 building. When listed in 1976, the structure consisted of 3 dwellings numbered 1, 2, and 3 Rhosferig, Belle Vue Road. The group has been re-numbered as 5, 6 and 7, Belle Vue Road, and the former Nos 2 and 3 Rhosferig combined into one dwelling, called No 7 Belle Vue Road.
Exterior
No 5 and No 6&7 Bellevue Road
Row of 2 cottages. One storey and attic and 2 storeys. Stone walls. Slate roofs. No 5 at S end has SE return elevation with wide rendered gable with two-light wood casement both above and below. Wall to Belle Vue Road of stone rubble with catslide dormer and, on ground floor, a 12-pane sash window. To N (L), a wide gable with external chimney breast, rendered below, and with brick stack; casement window to right hand at first floor level, and 12-pane sash below. To left of chimney breast, apex of gable with first floor two-light modern casement under semi-circular relieving arch, and similar window to its L. On ground floor, doorway flanked by 12-pane sash.
To North (L), beyond gable, catslide dormer, and two 12-pane sash windows, the L of these set in former vehicle doorway. Lean-to extension to N gable end.
Reason for designation
Building with early origins retaining its overall shape. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- No 6 & 7 Bellevue RoadNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 1 Wellington PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Wellington PlaceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former Stable Block to Rear of No 4 Belle Vue RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.