Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 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
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 January 1952
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94754, -3.39084
- Cadw reference
- 6910
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
About 20 metres NW of town hall. Shown on OS map as No 11; known to local authority and owners as No 8 and originally listed as such.
History
Building with late C18 to early to mid C19 exterior.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation over. Three-storey painted pebble-dash front with mid to later C19 detailing; plain band at second floor level. Slate roof. Windows with moulded architraves. Two square windows on second floor, modern glazing; on first floor, to centre, triple sash with bracketed cornice flanked to each side by a narrow horned sash window without glazing bars. Modern shop front to ground floor
Interior
C18 staircase (balusters boxed in or removed); C18 fireplace.
Reason for designation
Building retaining C18 and C19 character with Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 9 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 10 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 11 High Street InferiorNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.