Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
49 High Street Inferior
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
- 51.94735, -3.39109
- Cadw reference
- 6936
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 R of Ye Olde Cognac PH.
History
Early to mid C19 re-front to a possibly C17 town house.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation over. Stuccoed front to High Street Inferior of 3 storeys, 2 windows; hipped slate roof; giant pilasters to first and second floors. Windows openings with moulded architraves; sash windows without glazing bars and with horns. Modern shopfront on ground floor. Rear elevation to Church Lane has modern openings on 3 levels.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent buildings in High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 48 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ye Olde Cognac PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Sarah Siddons PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- 51 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.