Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
12568
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/08/1981
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992
Name of Property
Brecon House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close
Town
Locality
Easting
175077
Northing
225550
Street Side
Location
Situated on NW side of road leading NE from Cathedral Close towards Pont y Penyd, between The Archdeaconry and The Canonry.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
1820-21 by William Owen of Haverfordwest for the Archdeacon of Brecon. The house was rebuilt by W Owen of Haverfordwest, but the final account is signed "measured and examined, J W Maund, architect, Brecon", who may have had a hand in the design. The cost was £931/19/0+d. It replaces a fine C16 house described by E Yardley in mid C18 as having a 'hansome hall reching up to ye roof', and by Jones and Freeman as having had a remarkable large porch with sculpted shields and other devises. One carved escutcheon was extant in 1976.
Exterior
Roughcast unpainted two-storey, three-window front with low-pitched slate eaves roof, raised plinth and central front door reached by double flight of four stone steps with plain iron handrail. 12-pane sashes with slate sills, flush-panelled 6-panel door with traceried fanlight in painted, panelled, round-arched reveal; thin painted timber pilasters each side to semicircular painted timber hood on paired carved brackets. Plain 3-window W side elevation, a later C19 bay window removed since 1981. NE service range, set back.
Interior
Panelled doors, shutters, contemporary staircase, C19 fireplaces.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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