Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
7017
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/12/1976
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
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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