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
85785
Building Number
51
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/2005
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
51 High Street Inferior
Address
51 High Street Inferior
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304494
Northing
228558
Street Side
Location
Opposite Town Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late C19 front to High Street, but believed to contain C18 structure. The birthplace in 1747 of Dr Thomas Coke, "The founder of the Wesleyan Foreign Missions and of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America".
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Three storeys plus attic; painted brick. Single-window front with hipped attic dormer flanked by pilasters and shaped parapet; Greek key band. Two-storey splayed oriel window on second and first floors; bands of dogtooth decoration below. Altered shopfront with doorway to each end.
Rear elevation to Church Lane, exposed stone with yellow brick dressings; 2-window front with horned sash windows, and on ground floor, good C19 iron railings; doorway to each end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in High Street.
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