Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
20 Bethel Square
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 31 May 1961
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94757, -3.39026
- Cadw reference
- 85640
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
Facing Lion Street; on corner with archway to Bethel Square.
History
C18 origins; altered in late C20.
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Stucco with moulded band over ground floor; slate roof with eaves coving. Three-storey, 3-window front. Windows in plain reveals; square 6-pane sashes on top floor; 12-pane sashes on first floor. Modern shopfront on ground floor.
Interior
Interior very altered, but retains good earlier C18 stair to rear, and original doors and doorcases to staircase hall.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in Lion Street.
Nearby in the register
- 7 Lion StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- No.1 Bethel SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Lion StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4a Lion YardNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.