Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barclay's Bank
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 January 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 January 1952
- Date of amendment
- 4 November 2005
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94674, -3.39038
- Cadw reference
- 6839
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
Immediately to S of east end of St Mary's Church.
History
Late C18 to early C19; but with probably early C20 bank front to ground floor..
Exterior
Bank. Stone built and faced with stucco. Slate roof. Elevation of three storeys, five windows to The Bulwark with crowning cornice with dentils and fluted frieze; long and short quoins; rusticated ground floor. Six-pane sashes on 2nd floor, French casements with shouldered architraves on first floor; full width modern balcony at this level. Ground floor has modern fenestration and doorcase to Bank with Doric columns with open segmental pediment; rectangular doorway.
Reason for designation
Building with good C18/early C19 character on important site in old town centre. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in The Bulwark and St Mary Street, and with St Mary's Church.
Nearby in the register
- 5 St Mary StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wellington Hotel including rear wingsCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Old MuseumReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Duke of Wellington MonumentCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.