Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No.1 King Street including dwarf walls and iron railings
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95014, -3.39047
- Cadw reference
- 6942
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
Near foot of King's Steps; to rear of 20, The Struet.
History
Probably early C19.
Exterior
Small house. Two storeys and basement. Stone walls; pebbledash. Slate roof. Entrance faces N; 2-window front; modern 2-light casement windows, upper windows with heads at eaves level, lower right-hand window with cambered head; modern windows to basement. Central doorway; 4-panelled door. Connected to the public pathway by a small footbridge. Bounding the pathway there is a low retaining wall of stone with ashlar coping; C19 or later railings.
Reason for designation
Early C19 house retaining chracter, and with Group Value with No 2 King Street, and cobbled steps, and also with rears of Nos.18, 19 and 20 The Struet and with rears of Nos.21a and 21 to 23 (consec) The Struet.
Nearby in the register
- Cobbled Steps and PathwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 The StruetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Huntingdon HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 21a The StruetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.