Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
HSBC Bank
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94738, -3.39051
- Cadw reference
- 6907
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
Corner building on Tredegar Street.
History
1913. Designed by Midland Bank Architects and erected by Messrs Jenkins Brothers; stone carving by masons from Cefncoedycymmer quarries and by a London firm.
Exterior
Bank. One-storey building faced in ashlar. Neo-Baroque style. Large round-headed window openings with keystones and channelled ashlar and battered sills set between Ionic columns, paired to ends of elevations. Entablature surmounted by a balustraded parapet. Two bays to High Street Inferior, four bays to Tredegar Street. Convex entrance bay on corner with flat-headed enriched doorway, frieze with urn and swags, cornice; a small dome with finial and lead cladding and with carved swags and volutes around its base rises above the entablature of this bay. Scroll-top iron gates. Modern block to rear facing Lion Street.
Reason for designation
Included as strongly -designed early C20 bank, and for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings on this important site in the historic centre of Brecon.
Nearby in the register
- 4 High Street InferiorNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 3 High Street InferiorDomesticunder 1 mi
- Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
- 7 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.