Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 The Bulwark
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
- 51.94657, -3.38925
- Cadw reference
- 6832
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
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.