Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Usk House
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
- 51.94750, -3.39457
- Cadw reference
- 6816
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
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.