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
6844
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/12/1976
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
Camden Court
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
305509
Northing
228074
Street Side
N
Location
Prominently sited above road near junction with Cwrt-y-Camden.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Originally built as the Congregational Memorial College and opened in 1869. After the Act of Uniformity following the Restoration (1660), Nonconformists were barred from Oxford and Cambridge universities ("The Great Ejectment"), and had to make arrangements for their own education. The Congregationalists set up an academy at Abergavenny in 1757, and came to Brecon in 1839. The present building was built in 1869 as a memorial to the early Nonconformist martyrs; architect Rev Thomas Thomas. The College left Brecon in 1959, and the building was subsequently converted to flats.
Exterior
Former college. "Tudorbethan" style. Brown stone with bathstone dressings. Symmetrical front massed round tall central tower. Stone mullion and transom windows. The central tower of 5 storeys, has pyramidal roof with weather vane, and buttresses; entrance with Tudor-headed doorway. Tower flanked to each side by a recessed 2-window block of 2 storeys and attics; gabled dormers. To each side, beyond these, an advanced gabled block with two-storey splayed bay window with panelled parapet, above which is a four-light window to second floor and round window to attic. Beyond gabled blocks, a lower single window block of 2 storeys and attic with gabled dormer. At ends, a gabled block with pointed attic window.
Interior
Reason for designation
Strongly designed college building with added historic interest in the history of Nonconformist education in Wales.
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