Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
33 High Street Superior
Brecon, Powys, Wales
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
- 51.94782, -3.39170
- Cadw reference
- 6925
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 20 metres N of junction with ship Street. Marked erroneously on OS map as No 32.
History
Apparently a C19 re-fronting of a C17 town house.
Exterior
Three-storey painted brick one-window front. Slate roof. Nine-pane Brecon hopper window on second floor. On first floor, a 12-pane sash window. C19 shop front on ground floor comprising centre doorway flanked to each side by a shop window of two curved headed lights; casing of pilasters and cornice.
Interior
Ground floor hasC16/early C17 fireplace with stone bressumer.
Reason for designation
Building with early origins and early C19 character. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 34 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 32 High Street SuperiorDomesticunder 1 mi
- 35 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 39 High Street InferiorDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.