Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffynnonau Cottage
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
- 51.95684, -3.37563
- Cadw reference
- 6867
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
About 1.5 km NE of town centre, reached by drive on E side of Cerrigcochion Road.
History
Late C17-C18 with later alterations; detached lintel with C17 date stone. Original house appears to have been of 2 bays, now with further C20 bay added at north end at right angles. Late C20 sympathetic extension at SW corner; conservatory to S.
Exterior
House of 2-storeys with thick stone rubble walls and slate gabled roof; painted roughcast/pebbledash render; stone chimney stack at south end. Former entrance front faces east; older part (to L) with two 2-light casements on first floor and with a 3-light window and single-light window flanking central blocked doorway below. C20 gabled bay at north end with tall 2-light casement partly in roof space on first floor and with a larger window below. Right return of this block with modern doorway. Rear of this block with 2-light casement window to each floor. To R of this, gabled dormer, and 2-light casement window with tiny square window above. At right angles, modern extension in matching style and materials. South end of building in exposed stone; late C20 conservatory.
Reason for designation
Listed for its origins as a C17 small farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Forge HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Priory Mill HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Priory MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Penlan Lodge, including railings and gateDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.