Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Museum at Brecon Barracks
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94446, -3.38379
- Cadw reference
- 7091
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
On the W side of the Parade Ground, but front accessible from the Watton.
History
Built in 1805 as an armoury.
Exterior
Two-storey red brick building with slate roof with projecting eaves; 3 red brick chimneys at eaves. Entrance front with pedimented gable; 3 bays. Nine-window side elevation facing Parade Ground has 12-pane hornless sash windows on first floor; on ground floor, blind flat-headed windows in end bays (R of these with later doorway), originally round-headed small-pane sash windows in other bays, but 2 blocked, and one a doorway.
Reason for designation
Part of fine C19 barracks complex. Group Value with other listed buildings on the site.
Nearby in the register
- Block 4 (RMP Office)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Block 12 at BarracksDefenceunder 1 mi
- Blocks 21 and 23 (HQ Block and Rear Block)Defenceunder 1 mi
- Boundary Wall along The Watton, Brecon BarracksDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.