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
6852
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/01/1952
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
Brecon Castle Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304285
Northing
228730
Street Side
S
Location
Prominently sited above River Usk and next to remains of great hall of castle. Entrance front faces Castle Square and castle motte.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late C17 to C18 structure built in the site of Brecon Castle and refashioned in early to mid C19, and late C19/early C20. Shown together with Watergate Mill in C18 and early C19 prints. George IV dined here in 1821.
Exterior
Hotel; stucco. North elevation has central block of 3 storeys,3 windows; slate roof with projecting eaves and end chimneys. Hornless sash windows; 6-pane sashes on top floor, otherwise 12-pane sashes. Central flat-roofed porch with fanlight above door. To either side of central block, a lower 2-storey, 3-window wing with hipped roof of gradated slate courses. Two dormers with hipped slate roofs and casement glazing. Twelve pane sash windows. At W end there is a further similar wing, set back, of two storeys and attic with front wall of one bay's width with tripartite sash window on each floor.
At E end, there is a 3-storey gabled block 2 windows wide. At right angles, late C19 or early C20 wing in stone with half-timbered gables and archway to former stable yard
South elevation faces river. To L, westernmost block of one bay with semi-circular attic lunette and tripartite small-pane sash windows on first and ground floors. Then a 3-window block with two hipped dormers and with modern block built in front of it. Third block comprises a rear range to the central block in the front elevation; this has a 2-storey canted bay window at the W end and two further bays to the E with 12-pane sash windows in all openings. At E end, a high projecting block (refashioned externally in late C19 to early C20) has 2 transomed and mullioned windows with architraves, entablatures and pediments on first floor and, on ground floor, a large bay window with balustraded parapet.
Interior
Interior of Hotel has early to mid C19 detailing including doorways with fluted architraves and angle blocks, ceiling beams, panelled ceilings.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as building with well-preserved historic character. Hotel with C17 or C18 origins on important historic site. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings, including the remains of the medieval castle of Brecon.
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