Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
17 Bridge Street
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
- 51.94706, -3.39597
- Cadw reference
- 6823
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
Near junction with Silver Street.
History
Pair of late C18 or early C19 houses.
Exterior
No 17 has scribed rendered 2-window front with doorway roughly to its centre. 12-pane hornless sash windows throughout. Reproduction doorcase with tall fluted pilasters; re-instated 6-panelled door with rectangular overlight. Gabled dormer to rear.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved pair of late C18/early C19 houses with Group Value with adjacent houses in Bridge Street.
Nearby in the register
- 18 Bridge StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 16 Bridge StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Old College HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- 15 Bridge StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.