Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 King Street
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
- 51.94998, -3.39034
- Cadw reference
- 6943
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
On S side of King's Steps, about 40 metres from junction with the Struet.
History
Late C17 to C18 in origin. There were formerly more cottages to the SE as shown on Plan of Brecknock of 1834.
Exterior
Cottage. Stone walls, pebbledashed, but brick E end wall, also pebbledashed. Slate roof with chimney at W end. From L to R, N elevation with one dormer with a two-light window beneath it; similar window to L of modern boarded porch; small window also to R of porch. Upper floor window in E gable end.
Interior
Room to R has unusually high ceiling.
Reason for designation
Cottage with early origins; Group Value with adjacent cobbled steps and No.1 King Street.
Nearby in the register
- Cobbled Steps and PathwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.1 King Street including dwarf walls and iron railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 The StruetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 17 The StruetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.