Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
81 The Struet
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
- 51.95110, -3.39014
- Cadw reference
- 85726
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
Near footpath which descends from The Groves.
History
Early to mid C19 three-storey row of houses.
Exterior
Nos.80 and 81: each with modern window to top floor, and 4-pane sash windows to first and ground floors. No.80 with six-panelled door and No.81 with half-glazed panelled door.
The rear elevations are of four storeys and overhang the River Honddu in a picturesque manner.
Reason for designation
Group of 4 late Georgian houses forming important focal point at the bottom of the footpath leading down from Priory Groves and the Cathedral. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- 80 The StruetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 82 The StruetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 83 The StruetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former Brecon BreweryIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.