Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
19 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
- 51.94807, -3.39138
- Cadw reference
- 6916
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
History
C19 re-front with late C19 details to C17 town house. Birthplace of the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Wales.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation over. Stucco front, slate roof. Narrow paired sash windows in architraves to centre on both first and second floors; pair on first floor with rounded heads. C20 plate glass shop front on ground floor. Rear gabled facade to Lion Street, with mostly C19 and later windows; narrow staircase window on first floor.
Interior
The turning stair, carpeted and with modern detailing is the "very fine" newel stair referred to in 1976 list description, but with newel post boxed. There are also concealed ovolo moulded beams.
Reason for designation
Building with C17 origins and mid-C19 typical character on important site in historic centre of Brecon. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- 18 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 20 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 14 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 15 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.