Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
1 Ffrwdgrech Road
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
- 51.94412, -3.40499
- Cadw reference
- 6885
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
On NW side of road near junction with Newgate Street.
History
Probably early C19.
Exterior
Two storey row of cottages, stone rubble, some painted. Slate roofs. Red brick chimney stacks. Nos 1 to 4 (consec) with one outer window bay and inner doorway each. Each with a small Brecon hopper inward opening window on first floor at eaves level. Camber-headed openings to ground floor. Nos 1 and 2 now form one unit with one doorway blocked, and are not painted. On ground floor, No 1 with a fixed 16-pane window to L, and a blocked doorway to R.
Ground floor of No 2 with a ledged door with frame to left hand and Brecon hopper window three panes wide to right hand. Nos 3 and 4 each with a hopper window three panes wide in outer bay; No 3 with ledged door and No 4 with modern door. No 5: to left hand, small hopper window above and larger inward hopper window three panes wide below. Ledged door.
Reason for designation
Row of early C19 cottages retaining character. Group Value with other listed cottages in the street.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Ffrwdgrech RoadNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 3 Ffrwdgrech RoadNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 4 Ffrwdgrech RoadNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 5 Ffrwdgrech RoadNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.