Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 & 6 Bridge Street
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 July 1963
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85725, -3.14007
- Cadw reference
- 7168
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set into the slope with adjoining terrace stepped down to right.
Exterior
Early C19 2-storey roughcast front with plinth to L-plan house of probable earlier origins. Now all one property but No 6 formerly a shop. Slate roof with steep pitched cross gable to left, large central roughcast chimney stack and 1 brick stack. 2 casement windows to 1st floor left, small-pane sash windows to right with cambered heads, further casement to ground floor left beside recessed 4-panel door with brasswork; 16-pane bow window with 6-panel door to cross passage under cambered head to right; formerly a further entrance to left of the bow. Modern rebuilding of cross range and remodelling of cross passage to extend the house.
Roof construction probably contemporary with the front.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 8 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 32 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.