Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
9 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
- 51.94759, -3.39093
- Cadw reference
- 6911
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 12 but known to local authority and to occupiers as No 9.
History
Shop with accommodation above. Mid-to-later C19 overall character, but rear wing C17 with chamfered beams and C17 panelling to one room. Good C18 fireplace.
Exterior
Shop. Three-storey, two-window front. Cement render with pilaster strips to ends. Slate roof with plain projecting eaves. Horned sash windows without glazing bars in openings with moulded architraves. Modern shop front on ground floor. Full-height rear wing of stone rubble with gable ended roof.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent buildings in High Street, and Lion Street to rear.
Nearby in the register
- 11 High Street InferiorNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 8 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 10 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 12 High Street InferiorNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.