Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
7 Castle Street
Brecon, Powys, Wales
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
- 51.94877, -3.39207
- Cadw reference
- 6853
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
History
Early to mid C19. Listed in 1976 and described thus "3-storey, 1-bay facade of stone laid in regular courses. Pilaster at right hand end. Slate gabled roof. Sash windows in openings with heads of dressed stone. C19 shop front on ground floor comprising a window of two three-centred headed lights to left hand and a pair of half-glazed panelled doors to right hand, both within casing of pilasters, fascia and cornice."
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Three-storey, 1-window front; rendered. Slate gabled roof. Modern window to each floor. Altered C19 shop front on ground floor comprising a window to L, and modern door to R, enclosed by pilasters, fascia and cornice.
Reason for designation
Retained on list despite changes to character since original Listing purely for Group Value with adjacent buildings in this important street in the historic centre of Brecon.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Building, excluding rear block of No.9 in Chapel StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 10 Castle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.