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
6889
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/01/1952
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
The George Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304494
Northing
228716
Street Side
E
Location
Opposite Struet entrance to George Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Formerly a house. Late C17 or early C18.
Exterior
Hotel. Rendered two-storey, six-window front. Slate roof; end chimney stacks in stone. Window openings with moulded architraves. Sash windows, hornless, with 12 panes on first floor, without glazing bars on ground floor. Band between floors. On ground floor, five windows and, in a bay near centre, moulded wooden doorcase with fanlight and flat hood on consoles. Large parallel block to rear with lean-to to R; parallel block connected to main part of hotel.
Interior
Formerly ground floor had two unequally sized front rooms, but R front and rear rooms now one. Right hand room has C18 modillion cornice to front, and to rear, moulded cornice, and beam with panelled soffit. Room to L front has exposed beams, and stone fireplaces. Behind this room, very fine early C18 wooden staircase which rises to top of building; turned balusters, moulded handrail.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved early C18 building. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
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