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
6840
Building Number
10
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/01/1952
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
Wellington Hotel including rear wings
Address
10 The Bulwark
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304541
Northing
228472
Street Side
SW
Location
Immediately to S of Wellington Monument in Bulwark.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Early C19 facade to an early to mid C18 structure some C17 work to rear wing. The SE rear wing is of 2 storeys and is shown on 1834 Plan of Brecknock. The NW rear wing has an early to mid C19 Assembly Room on its upper floor and is only partly shown in 1834 plan.
Exterior
Hotel. Stuccoed elevation to The Bulwark of 3 storeys, 7 windows. Slate roof. Modillion cornice with blind windows above. Chamfered end quoins; band over ground floor. Hornless sash windows without glazing bars in moulded architraves. Late C19 porch on iron posts with pedimented canopy; double fielded panelled doors with architrave. Segmental arch to yard entrance in R (NW) bay.
Gable end to Glamorgan Street of 3 storeys, 2 windows, cemented rendered. Tall sash windows with small-pane glazing, one with horns on first floor; smaller sash windows on second floor; small windows to ground floor. At SE side of gable end to Glamorgan Street a shallow wing projects at right angles. To the NW gable end to Glamorgan Street there is, at right angles, a longer C19 wing with stone rubble walls and stone slate roof. Brick dressings. Two windows with three-centred heads on first floor and, on ground floor, three windows with cambered heads and blocked doorway with three-centred head. NW gable end with circular attic lunette; window with cambered head on first floor and modern vehicular entry on ground floor.
Interior
Within, early to mid C18 wood staircase in large entrance hall; this and NW ground floor room have ceilings with small modillion cornices similar to those in stair-wall of No 11 The Bulwark and in vestibule of No 4 Lion Street. Some C18 fireplaces and panelled doors of C18 and later date. The lower rear wing has some C17 work including chamfered beams etc.
Reason for designation
Building with C18 origins and late Georgian character on important site in historic centre of Brecon. Group value with adjacent listed buildings in The Bulwark.
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