Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 High Street Inferior
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 January 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 January 1952
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94730, -3.39023
- Cadw reference
- 6905
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Opposite St Mary's Church.
History
Two-storey house with attics of circa 1700.
Exterior
Former house, now shops with accommodation over. Two storeys plus attics. Stucco front. Steeply-pitched slate roof; rendered stone stack at NW end. Two small box dormers with 16-pane sash windows. Modillion eaves cornice. On first floor, four 12-pane hornless sash windows with moulded architraves. Two C20 shop windows and doorways on ground floor. To L, a double-fronted shopfront. To R, shopfront with doorway aligned with window in third bay above, and display window to R articulated by pilasters supporting fascia board and cornice. Lower gabled rear wing of stone.
Interior
Upper floor retains upper part of good stair of circa 1700 with turned balusters, panelled doors, dados etc.
Reason for designation
Early C18 town house retaining much historic character on important site opposite St Mary's Church. Group Value with the church, other listed buildings in High Street Inferior, and also with buildings in Lion Street to rear.
Nearby in the register
- 3 High Street InferiorDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 High Street InferiorDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 High Street InferiorNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- HSBC BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.