The Old Post Office, Brecon, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9469 / 51°56'48"N

Longitude: -3.3914 / 3°23'29"W

OS Eastings: 304462

OS Northings: 228513

OS Grid: SO044285

Mapcode National: GBR YP.MFDS

Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.5BGC

Plus Code: 9C3RWJW5+QC

Entry Name: The Old Post Office

Listing Date: 16 December 1976

Last Amended: 4 November 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7017

Building Class: Communications

ID on this website: 300007017

Location: About 50 metres W of tower of St Mary's Church.

County: Powys

Town: Brecon

Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)

Community: Brecon

Built-Up Area: Brecon

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: Post office

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History

Probably circa mid C19. Formerly the Head Post Office in Brecon - the third known site of the Post Office in Brecon. Built as service wing to now demolished Tredegar town house.

Exterior

Two-storey front to St Mary Street; painted roughcast with smooth band between floors, quoins and plinth; slate roof, rendered rectangular chimneys. Windows in moulded architraves; small-pane hornless windows on first floor, horned sashes on ground floor. First floor has three paired sash windows and one narrow sash window to L. On ground floor, wide bowed small-pane shop window and doorway within casing of pilasters, frieze and cornice; sash window at left-hand end; to sash windows to R. There is an old stamp machine to R of shop window.

Interior

Much modernised in mid-to-late C20.

Reasons for Listing

Included for Group Value with adjacent listed buildings in St Mary Street.

External Links

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II Building occupied by Spectrum
Near junction with Wheat Street.
II Fryer's Yard and North House
Between St Mary Street and Church Lane.
II House to rear of 1 Wheat Street
Attached to rear of Ruperra House, 1 Wheat Street
II Pair of Telephone Call-boxes immediately to S of St Mary's Church Tower
Set to rear of pavement close to screen wall at former Post Office Yard.
II* NO.5 St.mary Street, Powys
Immediately to S of St Mary's Church, on corner with lane to Glamorgan Street.
II Gateway in Wall opposite Havard House
Opposite Havard House, in wall forming N side of Glamorgan Street.
II Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front.
On S corner with St Mary Street.
II Pair of Telephone Call-boxes outside former yard of Old Post Office
Diagonally SW of St Mary's Church; to rear of pavement against boundary wall.

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The Old Post Office

A Grade II Listed Building in Brecon, Powys