Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
85785
Building Number
51
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/2005
Date of Amendment
04/11/2005
Name of Property
,51,High Street Inferior,,Brecon,,
Address
51 High Street Inferior
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Brecon
Town
Brecon
Locality
Easting
304494
Northing
228558
Street Side
Location
Opposite Town Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late C19 front to High Street, but believed to contain C18 structure. The birthplace in 1747 of Dr Thomas Coke, "The founder of the Wesleyan Foreign Missions and of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America".
Exterior
Shop with accommodation above. Three storeys plus attic; painted brick. Single-window front with hipped attic dormer flanked by pilasters and shaped parapet; Greek key band. Two-storey splayed oriel window on second and first floors; bands of dogtooth decoration below. Altered shopfront with doorway to each end.
Rear elevation to Church Lane, exposed stone with yellow brick dressings; 2-window front with horned sash windows, and on ground floor, good C19 iron railings; doorway to each end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in High Street.
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