Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
48 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
- 51.94738, -3.39117
- Cadw reference
- 6935
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
Set back to L from Sarah Siddons PH.
History
Early to mid C19 facade, possibly a re-front to earlier fabric.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Stuccoed front of 3 storeys, 2 windows. Hipped late roof, eaves cornice. Twelve-pane sash windows in plain reveals on second and first floors. Modern shop front.
Rear elevation to Church Lane; 2 storeys, 2-window front with horned sash windows, and doorway to each end.
Reason for designation
Building retaining early-to-mid C19 character, and with Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in the High Street.
Nearby in the register
- Sarah Siddons PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- 49 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 46 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ye Olde Cognac PHCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.