Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The George Hotel
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 January 1952
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94871, -3.39100
- Cadw reference
- 6889
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
Opposite Struet entrance to George Street.
History
Formerly a house. Late C17 or early C18.
Exterior
Hotel. Rendered two-storey, six-window front. Slate roof; end chimney stacks in stone. Window openings with moulded architraves. Sash windows, hornless, with 12 panes on first floor, without glazing bars on ground floor. Band between floors. On ground floor, five windows and, in a bay near centre, moulded wooden doorcase with fanlight and flat hood on consoles. Large parallel block to rear with lean-to to R; parallel block connected to main part of hotel.
Interior
Formerly ground floor had two unequally sized front rooms, but R front and rear rooms now one. Right hand room has C18 modillion cornice to front, and to rear, moulded cornice, and beam with panelled soffit. Room to L front has exposed beams, and stone fireplaces. Behind this room, very fine early C18 wooden staircase which rises to top of building; turned balusters, moulded handrail.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved early C18 building. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Former Cottage next to George HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 The StruetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 The StruetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 6 The StruetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.