Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Block 12 at 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
- 51.94466, -3.38336
- Cadw reference
- 7093
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
At west end of N side of Parade Ground,
History
1842-4; designed by Colonel Ord, Government Royal Engineer.
Exterior
Three-storey 12-window elevation facing Parade Ground. Hipped slate hipped roof; ashlar chimney stacks; projecting eaves. Grey stone laid in regular courses with band at first floor sill level; ground floor rusticated; plinth. Doorways in 3rd and 8th bays from L. Twelve-pane horned sash windows.
Reason for designation
Part of fine C19 barracks complex. Group Value with other listed buildings on the site.
Nearby in the register
- Blocks 21 and 23 (HQ Block and Rear Block)Defenceunder 1 mi
- Museum at Brecon BarracksDefenceunder 1 mi
- Block 4 (RMP Office)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Blocks 14 and 15 (Sphinx House and Officers' Mess), including front garden wallsDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.