Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
House, including Garden Wall & Railings
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94552, -3.38685
- Cadw reference
- 7106
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately to W of Chapel.
History
Early to mid C19. Originally, the windows in the outer bays of the front had four-centred heads to the lights, matching the panes of the central fanlight.
Exterior
Two-storey house with three-bay entrance facade of stone laid in regular courses; band at first floor level; end pilasters; windows with labels. Slate roof with end stacks; projecting eaves. Tripartite sash windows in end bays on first and ground floors. Cental bay on first floor with a single sash window. In centre ground floor bay, doorway with narrow pilasters, entablature and consoles; fielded-panelled reveals, rectangular fanlight with four-centred headed panes and fielded panelled reveals, rectangular fanlights with four-centred headed panes and fielded panelled door. Stone dwarf wall along The Watton with ashlar coping; later C19 iron railings. Rear elevation of stone rubble with tall, round-headed staircase window with radiating tracery. Six flush-panelled door.
Reason for designation
Early-to-mid C19 house together with railings preserving overall character. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in the Watton.
Nearby in the register
- 23 The WattonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brecon Presbyterian Church, including Hall to rearReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 24 The WattonNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Forecourt Wall, Piers, Railings & Gates of Brecon Presbyterian ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.