Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Post Office
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
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94688, -3.39141
- Cadw reference
- 7017
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 50 metres W of tower of St Mary's Church.
History
Probably circa mid C19. Formerly the Head Post Office in Brecon - the third known site of the Post Office in Brecon. Built as service wing to now demolished Tredegar town house.
Exterior
Two-storey front to St Mary Street; painted roughcast with smooth band between floors, quoins and plinth; slate roof, rendered rectangular chimneys. Windows in moulded architraves; small-pane hornless windows on first floor, horned sashes on ground floor. First floor has three paired sash windows and one narrow sash window to L. On ground floor, wide bowed small-pane shop window and doorway within casing of pilasters, frieze and cornice; sash window at left-hand end; to sash windows to R. There is an old stamp machine to R of shop window.
Interior
Much modernised in mid-to-late C20.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in St Mary Street.
Nearby in the register
- Building occupied by SpectrumCommercialunder 1 mi
- Fryer's Yard and North HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pair of Telephone Call-boxes immediately to S of St Mary's Church TowerCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- House to rear of 1 Wheat StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.