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Latitude: 51.9484 / 51°56'54"N
Longitude: -3.3924 / 3°23'32"W
OS Eastings: 304396
OS Northings: 228688
OS Grid: SO043286
Mapcode National: GBR YP.MF4K
Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.49X5
Plus Code: 9C3RWJX5+92
Entry Name: Brecon Market
Listing Date: 16 December 1976
Last Amended: 4 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6920
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300006920
Location: Occupying large site between High Street and Market Street; High Street entrance near junction with Castle Street.
County: Powys
Town: Brecon
Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)
Community: Brecon
Built-Up Area: Brecon
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
First erected 1840 to 1841, to the design of T H Wyatt; extended in 1845; rear Market Hall erected 1897 "on the site of the Butchers' Stalls and Butter Market". Old photos appear to show a wooden roof structure in the larger hall rather than the present steel-framed roof.
Narrow entrance from High Street Superior through stone archway with keystone flanked by Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature with modillion cornice, surmounted by a blind balustraded parapet. The aisles of the Market Hall are faced externally with stone rubble in regular courses; outer aisles with gabled roofs and centre aisle with hipped roof. Rear elevation in Market Street of 3 bays; outer bays gabled. To centre, blocked window retaining stone cornice; blocked camber-headed windows to outer bays. Ground floor entries to vaults with ashlar band above; two segmental doorways to centre; outer bays with inner round-headed window, and outer camber-headed doorway. Side blocks with brick barrel-vaulted roofs; centre wing with groined vaulted roof.
Narrow passage with walls of stone leads to wider arcaded section of market. Beyond, larger market hall of 1897; ten bays in three aisles with taller centre aisle and all three lit by continuous roof lights and ending in a blind facade to Market Street; built upon an impressive substructure of vaults. Plaque at far end records building of the larger hall in 1897. A painted wooden board records tolls in 1905.
Impressive market building with early C19 origins, and strong architectural presence especially to Market Street. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
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