Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
7018
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/05/1961
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
4 St Mary Street
Address
4 St Mary Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304502
Northing
228499
Street Side
SW
Location
To S of tower of St Mary's Church.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably a C18 core with early and later C19 reworking.
Exterior
Former house, now shop with accommodation above. Two storeys plus attic; 3-window roughcast front to St Mary Street. Slate roof with 3 hipped dormers with small-pane casement glazing. Modillion eaves cornice. Band course between floors, plain pilasters at ends. Twelve-pane sash windows on first floor. On ground floor, to either side of central doorway, a 3-light canted bay window with enriched frieze; sash windows without glazing bars. Central round-headed doorway with panelled reveals; semi-circular fanlight with tracery and fielded panelled door.
Interior
Ground floor shop now one space with remains of barrel-vaulted entrance hall. To rear R, elliptically-arched recess with fluted Doric pilasters and panelled reveals
Reason for designation
Former house with C18 origins, and well-preserved character. Group Value with adjacent buildings in St Mary Street.
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