7142

1  

II  

Designated  

16/12/1976  

04/11/2005  

Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front.  

1 Wheat Street  

Powys  

Brecon  

Brecon  

 

304433  

228528  

E  

On S corner with St Mary Street.  

Domestic  

 

Basic structure of late C17 to C18 date with later renovations and restorations. Two blocks to rear listed in 1976 are now separate properties and described under St Mary Street.  

House with colourwashed front to Wheat Street of 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. Slate roof with tall stone stacks to ends. Front block with three gabled dormers with Brecon hopper windows. On first floor, 20-pane hornless sash windows stuccoed architraves. On ground floor a similar sash window to either side of a central doorway with six-panelled door with top two panels glazed and rectangular fanlight with tracery. Open porch with flat roof, entablature and chamfered wooden posts. Left gable end has large external chimney breast with, to each side, on ground floor, a 12-pane sash window To front of house, a T-shaped stone-flagged pavement with cobbled setts set in right-angled spaces made by the projecting wings of the "T".  

Within, front block to Wheat Street with cased beams at first floor level and chamfered beam on ground floor.  

House with C17 origins, and retaining good period character on important corner site in historic centre of Brecon. Group Value.