Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
68 The Watton
Brecon, Powys, Wales
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
- 51.94458, -3.38552
- Cadw reference
- 85706
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
Near corner with Gasworks Lane.
History
Row of two-storey houses with facades of early to mid C19 date but of older basic structure. Much altered since listing in 1976.
Exterior
No.68 has doorway to right hand with modern door. A small-pane top-hung casement window to left hand both above and below.
Reason for designation
Included despite alterations as buildings representing the scale of the pre-Georgian structures of the Watton, and for Group Value with other listed buildings on The Watton.
Nearby in the register
- 67 The WattonNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 69 The WattonCommercialunder 1 mi
- 66 The WattonNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 70 The WattonNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.