Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
20 Ship Street
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 14 August 1964.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 14 August 1964
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94754, -3.39193
- Cadw reference
- 7033
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
The gabled facade occupies an important position at the top of the steep hill in Ship Street
History
Ovolo mouldings suggest early-to-mid C17 date; restored about 1970.
Exterior
Three-storey timber-framed building with overhangs jettied out on each upper floor. facing road, a large timber-framed gable, close-studded with carved wood bargeboard and finial; window strip of seven lights (arranged 2-3-2) with two mullions. First floor is rendered with brackets to overhang above, and with two 12-pane sash windows wide with wooden architraves. Modern shop front on ground floor.
Interior
Some beams visible on ground floor ceiling.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as important large-scale timber-framed building, a survivor from Brecon's timber-framed period. Group value with adjacent listed buildings on both sides of Ship Street.
Nearby in the register
- 19 Ship StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 18 Ship StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 17 Ship StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7 Wheat StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.