Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
34 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
- 51.94778, -3.39172
- Cadw reference
- 6926
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
To N of junction with Ship Street. Marked erroneously on OS map as No 33.
History
Probably early C19 front added to older core. Described at time of original listing as having " Windows with moulded architraves; smaller windows on second floor; sash windows 3 panes wide on first floor"; now altered.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Three storey, 2 window front. Roughcast. Slate roof. Modern small-pane top-hung casement windows in plain openings. On ground floor C19 shop front with window of 3 curved headed lights, with pair of double doors with ornate hinges at right-hand end, all within a common casing of pilasters, fascia, cornice and ornate brackets.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent buildings in the High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 33 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 35 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 32 High Street SuperiorDomesticunder 1 mi
- 39 High Street InferiorDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.