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Latitude: 51.9444 / 51°56'39"N
Longitude: -3.3826 / 3°22'57"W
OS Eastings: 305062
OS Northings: 228222
OS Grid: SO050282
Mapcode National: GBR YP.MPL2
Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.BD39
Plus Code: 9C3RWJV8+PX
Entry Name: Blocks 14 and 15 (Sphinx House and Officers' Mess), including front garden walls
Listing Date: 16 December 1976
Last Amended: 4 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7094
Building Class: Defence
ID on this website: 300007094
Location: Roughly in centre of N side of Parade Ground.
County: Powys
Town: Brecon
Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)
Community: Brecon
Built-Up Area: Brecon
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: House
A group of four houses built in 1840s and very similar to each other. Sphinx House, was the former first Commanding Officer’s house
A group of four grey stone houses all set behind a shallow garden with stone walls. Sphinx House is set slightly apart from the others, to the NW; the remaining three form 3 attached 5-window blocks with central block advanced, and with higher eaves. Slate roofs with projecting eaves. All with 12-pane sash windows, and of two storeys and basement with entrance floor set above the Parade Ground and behind a small raised garden with stone retaining walls and double stone stairs; stone piers; iron railings. First floors faced with ashlar with bands at first floor levels and at eaves; ground floors and garden walls and steps rusticated. Central stone doorways with bracketed cornices on consoles; rectangular overlights. Sphinx House has a modern porch.
Part of a fine and rare C19 Barracks complex, retaining its character. Group Value with other listed buildings on the site.
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