Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ye Olde Cognac PH
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
- 51.94733, -3.39102
- Cadw reference
- 6937
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
Opposite Town Hall
History
Early C19 re-front to a late C16 to C17 structure, probably a three-quarter house originally.
Exterior
Public house. Stuccoed front to High Street Inferior of three storeys, two windows; hipped slate roof. Sash glazing with smaller 6-pane sashes on second floor; 12-pane sashes on first floor. Late C19 public house front of two windows each of two round-headed lights flanking a central round-headed doorway with blocked tympanum. Roughcast and gabled rear elevation to Church Lane with a 9-pane sash window on both second floors, and on first floor, a 12-pane sash with 9-pane sash offset to L; two Brecon Hopper windows on ground floor.
Interior
Cased ceiling beams on first and second floors. Early C19 semi-elliptical staircase, with stick balusters (probably adaptation of old newel stair). Panelled doors; some on second floor with fielded panels.
Reason for designation
Building with early C19 character with Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 49 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 51 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 48 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
- 52 High Street InferiorCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.