Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No.38 Free Street including Railings and Gates
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
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
- 51.94674, -3.38733
- Cadw reference
- 6882
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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
Adjacent to Markets Tavern Hotel, set back from the street behind a narrow forecourt.
History
Later C19 house.
Exterior
House. Cement rendered street front of 2 storeys and attic, three windows. Modern casement windows imitating horned sash windows without glazing bars. Attic windows have gablets with fancy bargeboards. Windows with window guards on first floor and with narrow centre window with margin lights. On ground floor, tripartite window to left hand; to right hand, canted three-light bay window with slate roof; in centre, pilastered wood doorcase with cornice on consoles, four-panelled door and plain rectangular fanlight. Contemporary forecourt railings and gate.
Reason for designation
Listed for Group Value with adjacent Hotel.
Nearby in the register
- 37 Free StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Markets Tavern HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- House, including Garden Walls, Piers Railings, and GatesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- House, including Garden Walls, Piers Railings, and GatesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.