Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Bridge Street
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
- 51.94742, -3.39489
- Cadw reference
- 6818
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
About 50 metres W of Usk Bridge.
History
C17 to C18 two-storey cottages partly timber-framed. Nos 5 and 6 now one property.
Exterior
No 5 and 6 has three-window front, modern glazing. Pebledash. Three asymmetrically spaced windows to first floor. On ground floor, passage way to left hand with square timber-framing of thin scantling in walls of passage. To centre, an altered shopfront with central doorway set back between 2 small-pane shop windows. To R, plain doorway with modern door, and to R again, modern window.
Reason for designation
One of a group of houses with early origins on important site on appraoch to Usk Bridge. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Bridge StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 7 Bridge StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Bridge StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.