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Latitude: 51.9474 / 51°56'50"N
Longitude: -3.3905 / 3°23'25"W
OS Eastings: 304525
OS Northings: 228567
OS Grid: SO045285
Mapcode National: GBR YP.MFM6
Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.59YZ
Plus Code: 9C3RWJW5+XR
Entry Name: HSBC Bank
Listing Date: 16 December 1976
Last Amended: 4 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6907
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300006907
Location: Corner building on Tredegar Street.
County: Powys
Town: Brecon
Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)
Community: Brecon
Built-Up Area: Brecon
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Bank Business Bank building
1913. Designed by Midland Bank Architects and erected by Messrs Jenkins Brothers; stone carving by masons from Cefncoedycymmer quarries and by a London firm.
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.
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.
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