Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
45/46 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
- 51.94536, -3.38725
- Cadw reference
- 85748
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 junction with Rich Way.
History
Small houses with early to mid C19 facades with some modern alterations; probably late C17 to early C18 basic structure. Nos.45 and 46: formerly two cottages converted in 1960s into one dwelling.
Exterior
Slate roof with higher ridge than in No.44; stone stack to R (raised in brick). Two small modern windows on first floor; on ground floor, a modern casement window to L, then modern door, then two square modern windows.
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
- Borderers Guest HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 44 The WattonCommercialunder 1 mi
- Gremlin HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 23 The WattonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.