Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front., Brecon, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.947 / 51°56'49"N

Longitude: -3.3918 / 3°23'30"W

OS Eastings: 304433

OS Northings: 228528

OS Grid: SO044285

Mapcode National: GBR YP.MF9G

Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.5B78

Plus Code: 9C3RWJW5+R7

Entry Name: Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front.

Listing Date: 16 December 1976

Last Amended: 4 November 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7142

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007142

Location: On S corner with St Mary Street.

County: Powys

Town: Brecon

Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)

Community: Brecon

Built-Up Area: Brecon

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Basic structure of late C17 to C18 date with later renovations and restorations. Two blocks to rear listed in 1976 are now separate properties and described under St Mary Street.

Exterior

House with colourwashed front to Wheat Street of 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. Slate roof with tall stone stacks to ends. Front block with three gabled dormers with Brecon hopper windows. On first floor, 20-pane hornless sash windows stuccoed architraves. On ground floor a similar sash window to either side of a central doorway with six-panelled door with top two panels glazed and rectangular fanlight with tracery.
Open porch with flat roof, entablature and chamfered wooden posts. Left gable end has large external chimney breast with, to each side, on ground floor, a 12-pane sash window
To front of house, a T-shaped stone-flagged pavement with cobbled setts set in right-angled spaces made by the projecting wings of the "T".

Interior

Within, front block to Wheat Street with cased beams at first floor level and chamfered beam on ground floor.

Reasons for Listing

House with C17 origins, and retaining good period character on important corner site in historic centre of Brecon. Group Value.

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Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front.

A Grade II Listed Building in Brecon, Powys