Blocks 14 and 15 (Sphinx House and Officers' Mess), including front garden walls is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Residential.

Blocks 14 and 15 (Sphinx House and Officers' Mess), including front garden walls

WRENN ID
drifting-oriel-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 1976
Type
Residential
Source
Cadw listing

Description

A group of four grey stone houses all set behind a shallow garden with stone walls. Sphinx House is set slightly apart from the others, to the NW; the remaining three form 3 attached 5-window blocks with central block advanced, and with higher eaves. Slate roofs with projecting eaves. All with 12-pane sash windows, and of two storeys and basement with entrance floor set above the Parade Ground and behind a small raised garden with stone retaining walls and double stone stairs; stone piers; iron railings. First floors faced with ashlar with bands at first floor levels and at eaves; ground floors and garden walls and steps rusticated. Central stone doorways with bracketed cornices on consoles; rectangular overlights. Sphinx House has a modern porch.

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