Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
7 High Street Inferior
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
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
- 51.94747, -3.39073
- Cadw reference
- 6909
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
Attached to Town Hall on R. Shown on the OS map as No 10 but known to the local authority and to the occupier as No 7.
History
Early C19 exterior to stone building with late C16 to C17 core.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Cement-rendered 3-window front to High Street with mid to later C19 details; pyramidal slate roof; modillion eaves cornice. Window openings with moulded architraves; 12-pane sash windows to first and second floors. On ground floor, to R, wider sash window with marginal glazing bars; set in architrave. To L, late C19 or early C20 shopfront; doorway to R, end pilasters, fascia board with cornice over; later C20 tiled stallriser.
Interior
Old timber construction to ceiling; old stair in upper parts. Room to R of shop with early C19 cornice and panelled door.
Reason for designation
Building of early origins retaining good late Georgian character. Strong Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
- 8 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 9 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- HSBC BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.