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
6822
Building Number
14
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/01/1952
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
14 Bridge Street
Address
14 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304174
Northing
228551
Street Side
N
Location
About 50 metres from junction with Silver Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late C18 to early to mid C19. Some reinstatement of detail in late C20.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Group late C18 or early C19 houses with well-preserved period detail. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Group Description
Nos 14, 15, & 16 Bridge Street.
Row of three 3-storey houses with slate roofs with eaves much higher than eaves in No 13; front external walls faced with cement rendering. Quoins; plinth.
Nos 14 and 15 of four windows with a doorway in further blank bay at right hand end. Long and short quoins to R only. Three moulded wood round-headed doorcases with open pediments, fluted pilasters, six-panelled doors and fanlights. Three middle bays with sash windows with glazing bars on both upper floors, 12-pane sashes (4 over 8) on top floor, 16-pane sashes on first floor; two three-light sash windows on ground floor, one to each side of central doorcase. Centre doorcase with plain reveals, semi-circular fanlight with radiating tracery and six-panelled door. Bay at left-hand end with blind window openings on second and first floors and with doorcase to passage on ground floor; doorcase with reinstated plain reveals, blocked tympanum and 6-panelled door. Doorcase to No 14 in blank bay at right-hand end; pediment with dentils; fluted pilasters, panelled reveals, six-panelled door and semi-circular fanlight with radiating tracery.
No 16 has 3-window front. Slate roof with higher ridge. Window openings with moulded architraves. Long and short quoins. Sash windows, 12-pane (4 over 8) on second floor; elsewhere, 16-pane sash windows. Central round-headed doorway with fluted pilasters, pediment with dentils, panelled reveals, semi-circular fanlight with radiating tracery and six-panelled door. To rear of No 16 there is an L-plan outbuilding block (C18 to C19). The wing on NW to SE axis has stone rubble walls and a roof mainly of modern tiles; opening with brick head and dressings in end; NE elevation of 5 bays, upper floor openings set at eaves; ground floor openings blocked with brick. The wing at right angles, on a NE to SW axis, which passes to the rear of Nos 14 and 15 Bridge Street, has stone rubble walls with slate gabled roof; loft door with brick head in NE.
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