Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 The Bulwark
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
- 51.94657, -3.38925
- Cadw reference
- 6832
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 SW end of street, attached to No 1.
History
Shop with accommodation above; circa 1900.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Tall gabled pebbledash elevation to The Bulwark; 3 storeys and attic; plain bargeboard. 3-light attic casement with very small panes; on 2nd floor, 2 paired sash windows with stained glass; on 1st floor, a canted oriel window in centre flanked to either side by a narrow sash window. On ground floor, a 3-arched brick shopfront with semi-elliptical arch to centre and round arches to ends.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- 3 The BulwarkDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 The BulwarkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Silurian HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Lion StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.