Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Wall to rear of No 5
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
- 51.94619, -3.39030
- Cadw reference
- 6898
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
To rear of No 5 Glamorgan Street; best seen from Captain's Walk.
History
Late C18 to C19, built after decay and destruction of town wall in C18 and built probably roughly on line of medieval town wall.
Exterior
Tall stone wall; stone slab capping. Blocked doorway.
Reason for designation
Wall on or close to line of Medieval town wall of Brecon. Group Value with Nos 5 & 6 Buckingham Place, and other sections of listed walls forming boundary between houses in Glamorgan Street and Captain's Walk.
Nearby in the register
- Former Garden Wall to Nos.3 & 4 Glamorgan Street (now Wall to Car Park)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Glamorgan StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Glamorgan StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 6 Glamorgan StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.