Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Oxford House
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 January 1952
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94566, -3.38804
- Cadw reference
- 7122
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
Near junction with Lansdowne Terrace; attached to Lansdowne Hotel.
History
C18. Home of agent to East India Company at Seringapatem and founder of Asiatic Society.
Exterior
House of three storeys and attic, built of stone and faced in pebbledash. Elevation of five bays to The Watton, slightly off-set to R, and with central top floor window out of alignment with window below. Rusticated quoins at ends and rusticated architraves of ashlar; band courses, plinth. Nine-pane Sash windows three panes wide on second floor; 12-pane sash windows on first and ground floors.
On ground floor, blocked doorway at left hand end; to centre, fine semi-circular and pedimented doorcase with fluted and capped pilasters, semi-circular fanlight with tracery, fielded panelled doors and reveals.
Interior
Arch with panelled soffit at entrance to staircase hall; excellent late C18 to early C19 staircase with iron balusters with rosette motif and wooden balustrade; tall round-headed staircase window with Gothic glazing. Front NW ground floor room with heavy moulded cornices and moulded arch in SW wall. Attic window in SE wall with upper part comprising a semi-circular fanlight with thick wooden radiating tracery and with a two-light casement in lower part. Thick floorboards.
Reason for designation
A C18 house with good interiors. Group value with adjacent buildings in The Watton.
Nearby in the register
- 41 The WattonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lansdowne Hotel, including block to rear in Lansdowne TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 30 The WattonCommercialunder 1 mi
- 31 The WattonNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.