Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
13 Castle Street
Brecon, Powys, Wales
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
- 51.94895, -3.39242
- Cadw reference
- 6855
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
Location
Now at W end of Castle Street, next to new relief road.
History
Early C19 or before. Shown on Plan of Brecknock of 1834.
Exterior
Early to mid C19 street front of 3 storeys, 2 windows; scribed stucco. Slate roof; plinth. Windows with plain reveals. Brecon hopper windows each three panes wide with heads at eaves level on second floor. On first floor, two 12-pane sash windows without horns. To L on ground floor, a large horned sash window with architrave with cornice; to R in similar architrave, a panelled door with top two panels glazed.
Reason for designation
Early C19 building retaining its character. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in Castle Street.
Nearby in the register
- 12 Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Castle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 18 Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Castle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.