Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Community Centre, including Boundary and Retaining Walls
Brecon, Powys, Wales
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
- 51.95210, -3.39287
- Cadw reference
- 6984
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 St John's; to N of Cathedral car park.
History
Later C19. Built as the National (Church) school for Girls with School House at N end.
Exterior
Former school and school house in Gothic style. Stone walls; slate roof. Raised above street level upon an embankment enclosed by stone retaining walls. Former school house of two storeys, three bays. Some windows with columned mullions. Wider gabled bay at north end; window of two pointed headed lights with columned mullion and pointed relieving arch on first floor and a flat-arched window of 3 lights with columned mullions below. Doorway with pointed head in middle bay. Southern bay with a single sash window above and a flat-arched window of two-lights with columned mullion below. A one-storey wing with two windows and a ledged door in front wall connects the former School House and School at south end; accessible from the pavement via a flight of stone steps.
Former school block with gabled roof on east-west axis. Gabled end to Pendre with bargeboard and belcot; window of two cusped-headed lights with a cinquefoil over. South elevation with gables to three tall transomed two-light windows with cusped heads with quatrefoils and dripstones. Window in E gable ens as that to W. Block at right angles with broad doorway.
Reason for designation
Strongly designed Victorian Gothic group with Group Value with Cathedral.
Nearby in the register
- No.5 St John's TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lychgate and Flanking WallsDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.6 St John's TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Priory Walls, including North, West and Postern GatewaysReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.