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
6892
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/01/1952
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
The Old Museum
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304510
Northing
228482
Street Side
N
Location
Opposite Morgannwg House.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Opened 1836. Built by David Blow, English Independent Congregationalist Minister. This was the main building of the Brecknock Museum from 1927 until 1974.
Exterior
Former Chapel. Stone, faced in cement rendering. Two storeys. Two blocks of three and two windows. Taller 3-window block has slate roof with paired bracketed eaves. Band and pilasters at first floor level; ground floor rusticated.. First floor windows with moulded archivolts; round-headed sash windows with interlacing tracery. Steps up to plain round-headed doorway in centre with panelled doors and fanlight; windows as those above. Right hand return wall is curved at north east end; exposed stone with brick dressings to windows as front. Slightly lower wing at west end of 3 storeys, 2 windows with floors at different levels to main block. Round-headed windows with interlacing tracery. Parapet with plain capping.
Interior
Reason for designation
Earlier C19 chapel retaining its exterior character and with Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
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