Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stone Wall to NE of Castle Hotel which faces River Honddu, including Stone Outbuilding at N end
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1972.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1972
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94909, -3.39333
- Cadw reference
- 6850
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
Between Castle Hotel and Castle Bridge.
History
The outbuilding is probably late C18 or early C19, and the wall in its present form C19. There were formerly outbuildings against the wall, and at right angles to N. Modern hotel bedrooms have been built behind the wall.
Exterior
Stone wall with crenellations, stepped buttresses and loops. At N end, a stone outbuilding with slate roof.
Modern hotel bedroom block behind wall not included.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with Castle Hotel, and remains of Great Hall of Brecon Castle
Nearby in the register
- Ely Tower of Brecon CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Remains of the Great Hall of Brecon CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- Brecon CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.