Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
41 The Watton
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 31 May 1961.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 May 1961
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94561, -3.38790
- Cadw reference
- 7123
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 corner with Rich Way.
History
Date stone inscribed 1774 in centre on first floor, interior details confirm this as a likely date.
Exterior
Three-storey, four window street front of small blocks of dressed stone laid in regular courses. Slate roof with flanking stacks, right hand one of stone. Projecting eaves. Square-headed windows with voussoirs; four-pane sash windows. Plain wood square-headed doorcase with pilasters, entablature and pediment; 6-panelled door, glazed except for lowest panels. Left gable end has tall buttresses, and top floor casement window towards rear.
Interior
Some cornicing, fielded panelled doors, staircase etc.
Reason for designation
House retaining its C18 character with surviving interiors, and Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in The Watton.
Nearby in the register
- Oxford HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lansdowne Hotel, including block to rear in Lansdowne TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 28 The WattonCommercialunder 1 mi
- 30 The WattonCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.