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
7113
Building Number
36  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/12/1976  
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005  
Name of Property
House, including Rear Wing with NW Elevation in Free Street  
Address
36 The Watton  

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Brecon  
Town
Brecon  
Locality
 
Easting
304672  
Northing
228418  
Street Side
N  
Location
On corner with Free Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Later C19.  

Exterior
Three- and 2-storey stuccoed Victorian building. Slate roofs. Block on corner with Free Street is of 3 storeys. A separate steeply-pitched slate roof to the two bays to L in Free Street. Window openings with segmentally-headed moulded architraves; sash windows without glazing bars. Pilasters and entablature continue round both elevations of the ground floor, both to Free Street and to The Watton. Elevation to Watton of 5 windows; corner bay, and elevation to Free Street of 3 windows. On ground floor, corner doorway, and to both Watton and Free Street, C19 4-light shop windows with curved heads to lights. To Watton, a camber-headed window, and doorway; to Free Street, a camber-headed doorway, 2 camber-headed Windows, and pair of small windows. A further two storey stuccoed wing at E end of Free Street elevation. Slate roof. Five segmentally-headed windows with stuccoed architraves on first floor; single pane glazing. On ground floor, two C19 shop fronts each consisting of a doorway to R, and to L, a shop windows of two-lights, all under continuous moulded stuccoed cornice with volutes at tops of pilasters which articulate the arrangement.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Well-preserved C19 building with Group Value with adjacent listed buildings including Brecknock Museum.  

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