Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Ship Street
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 January 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 January 1952
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94791, -3.39254
- Cadw reference
- 7022
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
Downhill from Brecon Library, set forward from attached buildings to L.
History
Block facing Ship Street is probably late C18 or early C19 in date; rear wing to Bell lane possibly earlier.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Four window block facing ship street has 3 storeys and attic and is faced in stucco. Four window bays. Hipped slate roof with deep eaves; two semi-circular dormers with small-pane top-hung casements. On second and first floors, 12-pane sash windows in openings with slightly cambered heads. Ground floor has good C19 double shop front with central entrance with four three-quarter columns and continuous entablature. Right hand return to Bell Lane is roughcast; three-light shop window on ground floor. Possibly a wing of timber-framed structure of earlier date to rear, as in No.9.
Interior
Said to retain fielded panelled doors, chimney pieces etc.
Reason for designation
A late C18/early C19 building preserving historic character, and with evidence of early origins. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings on both sides of Ship Street.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Ship StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Ship StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brecon County LibraryCivilunder 1 mi
- Boleyn House and Flats round Rear Courtyard and Stone Flagged PavementDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.