Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
16 Ship Street
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 May 1961
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94762, -3.39237
- Cadw reference
- 7029
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
Opposite Brecon Library.
History
Probably early C19, but with earlier core.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Tall early C19 3-storey, 1 bay facade of colourwashed brick. Slate roof. Tripartite sash window with small-pane glazing on both second and first floors. C19 shop front on ground floor; two small plate glass shop windows and centre doorway within casing of fluted capped pilasters, continuous fascia and cornice. Cement rendered rear elevation similar to street facade.
Reason for designation
Building with well-preserved early C19 character. Group value with adjacent listed buildings in Ship Street.
Nearby in the register
- 15 Ship StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 17 Ship StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 14 Ship StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 Ship StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.