Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blocks 14 and 15 (Sphinx House and Officers' Mess), including front garden walls
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
- 51.94437, -3.38261
- Cadw reference
- 7094
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
Roughly in centre of N side of Parade Ground.
History
A group of four houses built in 1840s and very similar to each other. Sphinx House, was the former first Commanding Officer’s house,
Exterior
A group of four grey stone houses all set behind a shallow garden with stone walls. Sphinx House is set slightly apart from the others, to the NW; the remaining three form 3 attached 5-window blocks with central block advanced, and with higher eaves. Slate roofs with projecting eaves. All with 12-pane sash windows, and of two storeys and basement with entrance floor set above the Parade Ground and behind a small raised garden with stone retaining walls and double stone stairs; stone piers; iron railings. First floors faced with ashlar with bands at first floor levels and at eaves; ground floors and garden walls and steps rusticated. Central stone doorways with bracketed cornices on consoles; rectangular overlights. Sphinx House has a modern porch.
Reason for designation
Part of a fine and rare C19 Barracks complex, retaining its character. Group Value with other listed buildings on the site.
Nearby in the register
- Block 18 (H Block)Health and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Blocks 21 and 23 (HQ Block and Rear Block)Defenceunder 1 mi
- Block 12 at BarracksDefenceunder 1 mi
- The Keep at Brecon BarracksDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.