Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
4 St Mary Street
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 May 1961
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94676, -3.39083
- Cadw reference
- 7018
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
To S of tower of St Mary's Church.
History
Probably a C18 core with early and later C19 reworking.
Exterior
Former house, now shop with accommodation above. Two storeys plus attic; 3-window roughcast front to St Mary Street. Slate roof with 3 hipped dormers with small-pane casement glazing. Modillion eaves cornice. Band course between floors, plain pilasters at ends. Twelve-pane sash windows on first floor. On ground floor, to either side of central doorway, a 3-light canted bay window with enriched frieze; sash windows without glazing bars. Central round-headed doorway with panelled reveals; semi-circular fanlight with tracery and fielded panelled door.
Interior
Ground floor shop now one space with remains of barrel-vaulted entrance hall. To rear R, elliptically-arched recess with fluted Doric pilasters and panelled reveals
Reason for designation
Former house with C18 origins, and well-preserved character. Group Value with adjacent buildings in St Mary Street.
Nearby in the register
- 5 St Mary StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pair of Telephone Call-boxes outside former yard of Old Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- The Old MuseumReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pair of Telephone Call-boxes immediately to S of St Mary's Church TowerCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.