Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
23 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
- 51.94867, -3.39181
- Cadw reference
- 6863
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
Near junction with High Street, backing onto market. The OS map indicates two sets of buildings numbered 2 to 4 Market Street.
History
Circa 1840; at the time of the building of the Market House, Lord Tredegar gave £200 towards the widening of Castle Street. At time of listing in 1976, the buildings bore the numbers 2,3, and 4 which probably referred to a block or terrace whose name had been lost, since there are other buildings with the same numbers opposite.
Exterior
No 23 with hornless sash windows; two square 6-pane sashes on second floor, and two 12-pane sashes on first floor. On ground floor, plate glass former shop window to R; to L, flat-arched doorway with architrave panelled reveals; half-glazed panelled door and rectangular fanlight with rectilinear tracery.
Reason for designation
A group of earlier C19 houses retaining their character with Group Value with adjacent buildings in Castle Street.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Castle StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 5 Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 105 The StruetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 23a Castle StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.