Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
39 High Street Inferior
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 May 1961
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94773, -3.39151
- Cadw reference
- 6929
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
On island site in the High Street, with fronts to W and E.
History
Circa 1890; doorway dated 1891.
Exterior
Three storeys and attic. Ornately stuccoed fronts with mannerist touches to both E and W. West front with two pedimented dormers. Stuccoed panelling at eaves above second floor windows. Moulded stringcourses. First floor rusticated. Sash windows with horns; two windows with stuccoed architraves on both second and first floors, first floor windows with aprons. Oval lunette to R on second floor. Ground floor with panelled pilasters and cornice; wide segmental headed window to L; in middle, round-headed doorway with date '1891' above it and to right-hand a small round-headed window. Facing E, a similar elevation; first and second floors as W elevation, but without lunette. On ground floor, panelled pilasters and cornice articulate composition of 3 camber-headed windows, ant to R, a square-headed doorway with oval overlight.
Reason for designation
Elaborately detailed late C19 building with strong Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Lloyd's TSBCommercialunder 1 mi
- 41 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 34 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 33 High Street SuperiorCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.