Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
6907
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/12/1976
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
HSBC Bank
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304525
Northing
228567
Street Side
NE
Location
Corner building on Tredegar Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1913. Designed by Midland Bank Architects and erected by Messrs Jenkins Brothers; stone carving by masons from Cefncoedycymmer quarries and by a London firm.
Exterior
Bank. One-storey building faced in ashlar. Neo-Baroque style. Large round-headed window openings with keystones and channelled ashlar and battered sills set between Ionic columns, paired to ends of elevations. Entablature surmounted by a balustraded parapet. Two bays to High Street Inferior, four bays to Tredegar Street. Convex entrance bay on corner with flat-headed enriched doorway, frieze with urn and swags, cornice; a small dome with finial and lead cladding and with carved swags and volutes around its base rises above the entablature of this bay. Scroll-top iron gates. Modern block to rear facing Lion Street.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as strongly -designed early C20 bank, and for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings on this important site in the historic centre of Brecon.
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