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
6818
Building Number
5
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/12/1976
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
5 Bridge Street
Address
5 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304224
Northing
228578
Street Side
N
Location
About 50 metres W of Usk Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C17 to C18 two-storey cottages partly timber-framed. Nos 5 and 6 now one property.
Exterior
No 5 and 6 has three-window front, modern glazing. Pebledash. Three asymmetrically spaced windows to first floor. On ground floor, passage way to left hand with square timber-framing of thin scantling in walls of passage. To centre, an altered shopfront with central doorway set back between 2 small-pane shop windows. To R, plain doorway with modern door, and to R again, modern window.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of a group of houses with early origins on important site on appraoch to Usk Bridge. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
Group Description
5,6 & 7 Bridge Street
Group of 2-storey houses. Five windows in all. Steeply pitched slate roofs, with skylights.
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