Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 Wheat Street
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
- 51.94720, -3.39177
- Cadw reference
- 7143
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
To R of Wheatsheaf Public House.
History
C18 with some C19 external and internal details. The rear wing to St Mary Street, listed in 1976, is now described separately.
Interior
Within, No.2 has been altered for office use in later C20 but retains vestibule with barrel vaulted ceiling; glazed door and partition with stained glass; altered C19 staircase with turned newels and straight balusters; C19 door frames; some panelled shutters.
Reason for designation
One of two early C19 houses with well-preserved character and Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in Wheat Street and St Mary Street.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Wheat StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former Rear Wing of No 2 Wheat StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The WheatsheafCommercialunder 1 mi
- 8 Wheat StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.