Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front.
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
- 51.94701, -3.39184
- Cadw reference
- 7142
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
On S corner with St Mary Street.
History
Basic structure of late C17 to C18 date with later renovations and restorations. Two blocks to rear listed in 1976 are now separate properties and described under St Mary Street.
Exterior
House with colourwashed front to Wheat Street of 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. Slate roof with tall stone stacks to ends. Front block with three gabled dormers with Brecon hopper windows. On first floor, 20-pane hornless sash windows stuccoed architraves. On ground floor a similar sash window to either side of a central doorway with six-panelled door with top two panels glazed and rectangular fanlight with tracery.
Open porch with flat roof, entablature and chamfered wooden posts. Left gable end has large external chimney breast with, to each side, on ground floor, a 12-pane sash window
To front of house, a T-shaped stone-flagged pavement with cobbled setts set in right-angled spaces made by the projecting wings of the "T".
Interior
Within, front block to Wheat Street with cased beams at first floor level and chamfered beam on ground floor.
Reason for designation
House with C17 origins, and retaining good period character on important corner site in historic centre of Brecon. Group Value.
Nearby in the register
- House to rear of 1 Wheat StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Building occupied by SpectrumCommercialunder 1 mi
- Front Wing of St Michael's HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Rear Wing of No 2 Wheat StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.