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
7017
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/12/1976
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
The Old Post Office
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304462
Northing
228513
Street Side
S
Location
About 50 metres W of tower of St Mary's Church.
Description
Broad Class
Communications
Period
History
Probably circa mid C19. Formerly the Head Post Office in Brecon - the third known site of the Post Office in Brecon. Built as service wing to now demolished Tredegar town house.
Exterior
Two-storey front to St Mary Street; painted roughcast with smooth band between floors, quoins and plinth; slate roof, rendered rectangular chimneys. Windows in moulded architraves; small-pane hornless windows on first floor, horned sashes on ground floor. First floor has three paired sash windows and one narrow sash window to L. On ground floor, wide bowed small-pane shop window and doorway within casing of pilasters, frieze and cornice; sash window at left-hand end; to sash windows to R. There is an old stamp machine to R of shop window.
Interior
Much modernised in mid-to-late C20.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in St Mary Street.
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