Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
32 High Street Superior
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94788, -3.39166
- Cadw reference
- 6924
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
Opposite island block in High Street.
History
Probably mid C19.
Exterior
Shops with accommodation above. Three storey, 4 window front; stuccoed. Slate roof; overhanging eaves. Window openings have moulded architraves; 4-pane horned sash windows. On first floor, windows have low iron rails. On ground floor, continuous shop front, later C19 to early C20. Doorways at ends in common casing of continuous wood fascia and cornice; at left-hand end, doorway with fielded panelled reveals, fielded panelled door and deep plain rectangular fanlight.
Reason for designation
Mid Victorian building retaining almost all its character. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in the historic centre of Brecon.
Nearby in the register
- 33 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 34 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 40 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 35 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.