Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
15 Ship Street
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 31 May 1961.
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
- 51.94763, -3.39244
- Cadw reference
- 7028
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
Opposite Bell Lane.
History
C17 "three-quarter-house" which has been restored.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation over. C19 stuccoed street facade of 2 storeys and attic, 2 bays; first floor overhangs. One catslide dormer window. Two 16-pane sash windows with moulded architraves on first floor. C19 shop front on ground floor with central half-glazed four-panelled door. To rear, now connected to front block by modern flat-roofed extension, and early C19 stable wing of 1 storey and loft to rear with colourwashed brick and stone rubble walls and slate gabled roof.
Interior
Timber work has been exposed. West ground floor wall with thin timber framing with herringbone brick infilling; east wall of colourwashed rubble; thin ceiling joists, but ground floor and first floor with thick centre beams. On first floor, front wall also has some exposed timber-framing.
Reason for designation
C17 house retaining its character. Group value with adjacent listed buildings in Ship Street.
Nearby in the register
- 14 Ship StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 16 Ship StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 17 Ship StreetCommercialunder 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.