Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Glasfryn
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 4 November 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 November 2005
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94774, -3.38677
- Cadw reference
- 85754
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
About 30 metres W of junction with Cerrigcochion Road.
History
About 1900-1910.
Exterior
Edwardian detached house. Two storeys plus attic. Red brick with tile hanging; tiled roof; tall red brick chimneys. Wooden mullion and transom windows with stained glass in upper lights. To L, half-timbered attic gable with decorative bargeboard and 3-light window; 2-storey splayed bay window. To centre, gabled attic dormer, and 2-light window over half-timbered gabled porch with bargeboard with pierced quatrefoils; original half-glazed door with flanking lights. To R, two-storey splayed bay window with hipped tiled roof. Side elevations have chimney breasts with gables at eaves level.
To front, red brick wall with stone capping; tall brick piers and gatepiers with stone caps and ball finials; iron railings and gates with scrolled panels.
Reason for designation
A strongly designed and exceptionally well-preserved Edwardian house in a prominent position above centre of Brecon.
Nearby in the register
- 1 Camden RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Camden RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Camden RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Camden RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.