History

1913. Designed by Midland Bank Architects and erected by Messrs Jenkins Brothers; stone carving by masons from Cefncoedycymmer quarries and by a London firm.

Exterior

Bank. One-storey building faced in ashlar. Neo-Baroque style. Large round-headed window openings with keystones and channelled ashlar and battered sills set between Ionic columns, paired to ends of elevations. Entablature surmounted by a balustraded parapet. Two bays to High Street Inferior, four bays to Tredegar Street. Convex entrance bay on corner with flat-headed enriched doorway, frieze with urn and swags, cornice; a small dome with finial and lead cladding and with carved swags and volutes around its base rises above the entablature of this bay. Scroll-top iron gates. Modern block to rear facing Lion Street.

Reasons for Listing

Included as strongly -designed early C20 bank, and for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings on this important site in the historic centre of Brecon.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29485979

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)