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Latitude: 51.883 / 51°52'58"N
Longitude: -5.2696 / 5°16'10"W
OS Eastings: 175077
OS Northings: 225550
OS Grid: SM750255
Mapcode National: GBR C5.RHLG
Mapcode Global: VH0TD.MX1V
Plus Code: 9C3PVPMJ+65
Entry Name: Brecon House
Listing Date: 26 August 1981
Last Amended: 28 July 1992
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 12568
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300012568
Location: Situated on NW side of road leading NE from Cathedral Close towards Pont y Penyd, between The Archdeaconry and The Canonry.
County: Pembrokeshire
Community: St. David's and the Cathedral Close (Tŷddewi a Chlos y Gadeirlan)
Community: St. David's
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1820-21 by William Owen of Haverfordwest for the Archdeacon of Brecon. The house was rebuilt by W Owen of Haverfordwest, but the final account is signed "measured and examined, J W Maund, architect, Brecon", who may have had a hand in the design. The cost was £931/19/0 d. It replaces a fine C16 house described by E Yardley in mid C18 as having a 'hansome hall reching up to ye roof', and by Jones and Freeman as having had a remarkable large porch with sculpted shields and other devises. One carved escutcheon was extant in 1976.
Roughcast unpainted two-storey, three-window front with low-pitched slate eaves roof, raised plinth and central front door reached by double flight of four stone steps with plain iron handrail. 12-pane sashes with slate sills, flush-panelled 6-panel door with traceried fanlight in painted, panelled, round-arched reveal; thin painted timber pilasters each side to semicircular painted timber hood on paired carved brackets. Plain 3-window W side elevation, a later C19 bay window removed since 1981. NE service range, set back.
Panelled doors, shutters, contemporary staircase, C19 fireplaces.
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