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Latitude: 51.9474 / 51°56'50"N
Longitude: -3.3912 / 3°23'28"W
OS Eastings: 304476
OS Northings: 228572
OS Grid: SO044285
Mapcode National: GBR YP.MFFP
Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.59KY
Plus Code: 9C3RWJW5+XG
Entry Name: Sarah Siddons PH
Listing Date: 16 January 1952
Last Amended: 4 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6934
Building Class: Commercial
Also known as: The Sarah Siddons
The Sarah Siddons, Brecon
Sarah Siddons
ID on this website: 300006934
Location: Close to centre of block on S side of High Street. Set slightly forward from buildings to L
County: Powys
Town: Brecon
Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)
Community: Brecon
Built-Up Area: Brecon
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Pub
C19 re-fronting of a late C16 to C17 town house. Originally a "three-quarter house " with timber-framed front, and side and rear walls of stone. Formerly known as the Shoulder of Mutton Inn. Birthplace of the great actress Sarah Siddons, 5 July 1755; a watercolour in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, shows the room where she was born. One of Britain's greatest tragic actresses, Siddons was painted by both Reynolds (as "The Tragic Muse") and Gainsborough. She died in 1831.
Three storey, one window stucco front with band between first and second floors. Hipped slate roof. Bracketed eaves. Three-light sash windows on first and second floors with glazing bars to first floor window only. On ground floor, late C19 inn front with window of three round-headed lights with round-headed doorway at left-hand end; pilasters and entablature. Rear elevation to Church Lane has half-hipped roof and tripartite sash window on 3 floors above modern public-house front.
Early C19 adaptation of newel stair against SE wall.
Public house with well-preserved historic character, and additional historic interest from association with Sarah Siddons. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in High Street.
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