Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Usk House
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
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
- 51.94750, -3.39457
- Cadw reference
- 6816
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately to NW of Usk Bridge.
History
Mid-to-later C19.
Exterior
Stone building. Two storeys, two windows to Bridge Street. Pyramidal slate roof. Two tall stone chimneys. Front wall faced in stone laid in regular courses with larger blocks to quoins and window dressings. Four-pane sash windows, two on first floor and one to left hand below. To right hand below, doorway with dressed stone pilasters and entablature, four-panelled door and rectangular fanlight.
To rear, at right angles, a lower 2-storey, 4-window block in stone with red brick dressings, slate roof; 4-pane sash windows.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent buildings and Usk Bridge.
Nearby in the register
- 5 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Bridge StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Powell Art Centre, Christ CollegeDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Bridge StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.