Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Priory Lodge
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
- 51.95078, -3.39286
- Cadw reference
- 7006
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
About 30 metres N of junction with Priory Gardens.
History
Mid C19 lodge.
Exterior
Lodge of one storey and attic. Slate roof with central rectangular chimney. Stone walls. Elevation to Priory Hill of one storey; two transomed three-light windows with three-centred heads to lights; dripstones. Gabled porch at southern end with stone pilasters, arch with three-centred head and door with cover strips and three-centred heads to panels. South-east gable end with bargeboard; transomed first floor window of two curved headed lights with dripstone.
Reason for designation
Early-to-mid C19 lodge retaining its character with Group Value with buildings in Cathedral Close opposite.
Nearby in the register
- Tithe Barn, Brecon CathedralAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- 3 Priory HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Priory HillNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 1 Priory HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.