Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
13 Lion Street
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
- 51.94809, -3.39104
- Cadw reference
- 6961
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
On corner with lane leading to supermarket.
History
Probably early C19.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Stucco; slate roof. Front to Lion Street of 2 storeys, 2 windows first floor 4-pane sash windows set lower than in adjoining structure to SE. On ground floor, reproduction shopfront with central doorway in common casing of pilasters, fascia and cornice. Rounded corner in exposed stone. Left return elevation of roughly 5 bays; 4-pane sash windows; reproduction shopfronts. Further bay set back at rear.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with the many listed buildings in this important street at the heart of old town of Brecon.
Nearby in the register
- 12a Lion StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 14 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 12 Lion StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 15 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.