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Latitude: 51.9479 / 51°56'52"N
Longitude: -3.3925 / 3°23'33"W
OS Eastings: 304387
OS Northings: 228629
OS Grid: SO043286
Mapcode National: GBR YP.MF3N
Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.49VK
Plus Code: 9C3RWJX4+5X
Entry Name: 8 Ship Street
Listing Date: 16 January 1952
Last Amended: 4 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7022
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300007022
Location: Downhill from Brecon Library, set forward from attached buildings to L.
County: Powys
Town: Brecon
Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)
Community: Brecon
Built-Up Area: Brecon
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Building
Block facing Ship Street is probably late C18 or early C19 in date; rear wing to Bell lane possibly earlier.
Shop with accommodation above. Four window block facing ship street has 3 storeys and attic and is faced in stucco. Four window bays. Hipped slate roof with deep eaves; two semi-circular dormers with small-pane top-hung casements. On second and first floors, 12-pane sash windows in openings with slightly cambered heads. Ground floor has good C19 double shop front with central entrance with four three-quarter columns and continuous entablature. Right hand return to Bell Lane is roughcast; three-light shop window on ground floor. Possibly a wing of timber-framed structure of earlier date to rear, as in No.9.
Said to retain fielded panelled doors, chimney pieces etc.
A late C18/early C19 building preserving historic character, and with evidence of early origins. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings on both sides of Ship Street.
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