Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 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
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94713, -3.38995
- Cadw reference
- 6837
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
At NW end of this side of the Bulwark.
History
Earlier C19, with later C19 shopfronts.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Three storeys, 2 windows, and higher than the building to its R.
Stuccoed front wall; hipped slate roof of shallow pitch. Band at 2nd floor level. Window openings with moulded architraves and brackets beneath sills. Four-pane sash windows. Later C19 style shop front with framework of pilasters, fascia, and cornice on brackets; doorway to L, shop-window with three elliptically-headed lights. Stuccoed return elevation of 3 storeys, 4 windows. Four-pane sash windows. Shop windows on ground floor. Lower 2-storey, 3-window rear wing with pebbledash cladding and slate hipped roof.
Reason for designation
Earlier C19 building retaining its character. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- 1 High Street InferiorDomesticunder 1 mi
- NiblettsDomesticunder 1 mi
- ThomsonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cantre SelyfDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.