Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
17 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
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 May 1961
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94761, -3.39226
- Cadw reference
- 7030
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 Brecon Library.
History
Early-to-mid C19 character, but possibly with earlier core.
Exterior
Early to mid C19 facade of brick, now colourwashed; three storeys, three windows. Slate roof with flanking stacks. On first and second floors, window openings with gauged brick arches and reveals; 12-pane sashes to second floor (4 panes over 8) and 16-pane sashes to first floor. String course at second floor sill level. On ground floor, to R, C19 shop front with pilasters and fascia with brackets; part glazed central doorway with rectangular overlight, recessed between canted shop windows with colonettes and corner brackets. To L, further doorway with with rectangular fanlight with radiating tracery flush-panelled reveals, and, at left hand end, plate glass window.
Interior
Within, ceiling beams which have been plastered and papered over.
Reason for designation
Early-to-mid C19 building retaining its character and with good shopfront. Group value with adjacent listed buildings in Ship Street.
Nearby in the register
- 16 Ship StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 18 Ship StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 15 Ship StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 Ship StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.