Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Drover's Arms
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
- 51.94498, -3.40410
- Cadw reference
- 6974
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 entrance to Ffrwdgrech Road.
History
Late C18 or early C19 inn.
Exterior
Two storeys. Slate roof with rendered chimneys to ends and centre. Three-window roughcast front with 2 facets as road turns and drops to R. Right hand (larger) facet of two windows with roughly central doorway. Two 12-pane sash windows on each floor.Ledged door. Left hand facet of two closely set window bays. A 12-pane sash window on first floor to left hand; two similar windows on ground floor.
Reason for designation
A late C18/early C19 inn retaining its overall character, and with Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in Newgate Street.
Nearby in the register
- No.22 Llandaff RowNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- No.21 Llandaff RowNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 3 Newgate StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.20 Llandaff RowDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.