Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sunny Barn
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
- 51.94266, -3.37523
- Cadw reference
- 6845
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
To east of Camden Court.
History
Two parallel ranges of different dates partly shown on Tithe Map for Chapelry of St Mary of 1839. Front range of mid C19 date.
Exterior
House; stone rubble and slate roof; paired rendered chimney to S end. Two storeys, three windows. First floor window openings with cambered heads and with sash windows three panes wide. On ground floor, two wide canted bay windows, one each side of centre doorway with slightly cambered head. South gable end of front wing has cusped bargeboard; two windows at attic level, and 4-pane sash to ground floor. Rear range has stuccoed S elevation of two storeys with parapet; two windows which are 4-pane sashes apart from splayed bay in ground floor to L.
Reason for designation
Early-to-mid C19 house retaining its character with Group Value with adjacent listed barn, and with Camden Court to W.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Sunny BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Camden CourtEducationunder 1 mi
- Bank of Lime Kilns on S side of canal near Lime Kiln CottageIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Toll Gate CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.