6920

 

II  

Designated  

16/12/1976  

04/11/2005  

Brecon Market  

 

Powys  

Brecon  

Brecon  

 

304396  

228688  

 

Occupying large site between High Street and Market Street; High Street entrance near junction with Castle Street.  

Commercial  

 

First erected 1840 to 1841, to the design of T H Wyatt; extended in 1845; rear Market Hall erected 1897 "on the site of the Butchers' Stalls and Butter Market". Old photos appear to show a wooden roof structure in the larger hall rather than the present steel-framed roof.  

Narrow entrance from High Street Superior through stone archway with keystone flanked by Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature with modillion cornice, surmounted by a blind balustraded parapet. The aisles of the Market Hall are faced externally with stone rubble in regular courses; outer aisles with gabled roofs and centre aisle with hipped roof. Rear elevation in Market Street of 3 bays; outer bays gabled. To centre, blocked window retaining stone cornice; blocked camber-headed windows to outer bays. Ground floor entries to vaults with ashlar band above; two segmental doorways to centre; outer bays with inner round-headed window, and outer camber-headed doorway. Side blocks with brick barrel-vaulted roofs; centre wing with groined vaulted roof.  

Narrow passage with walls of stone leads to wider arcaded section of market. Beyond, larger market hall of 1897; ten bays in three aisles with taller centre aisle and all three lit by continuous roof lights and ending in a blind facade to Market Street; built upon an impressive substructure of vaults. Plaque at far end records building of the larger hall in 1897. A painted wooden board records tolls in 1905.  

Impressive market building with early C19 origins, and strong architectural presence especially to Market Street. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.