Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Wheat Street
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94725, -3.39173
- Cadw reference
- 85657
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
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.
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
- 2 Wheat StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- The WheatsheafCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Rear Wing of No 2 Wheat StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 7 Wheat StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.