THE name of the first JD Wetherspoon pub to open in Brecon has been unveiled less than two weeks before it opens.

The pub chain has revealed its Brecon pub and four room-hotel will retain the name The George Hotel.

The company has spent almost £2.2 million developing the outlet, on the site of the former George Hotel, in George Street, and will create 56 new jobs.

It acquired the building in early 2016 after the previous owners suddenly stopped trading shortly before Christmas 2015.

Serena Phillips has been appointed manager of The George Hotel which will open on Tuesday, February 21. She said: "Myself and my team are looking forward to welcoming customers into the pub, as well as hotel guests, and we are confident that it will be a great addition to the Brecon community."

The town centre building is a Grade II listed property and is thought to have been built as a house towards the end of the 17th century and its front was remodelled in early Victorian times.

The two-storey building is not recorded as one of the town’s inns in the earliest commercial directories of 1791 and 1829, but it is marked on the Town Plan of 1834 and included in the 1835 directory. In the 1860s, it is still referred to as the George Inn in the pages of the Brecon Recorder, however, it is marked as the George Hotel on the 1888 Town Plan.

Wetherspoon says its pub will open everyday from 7am and close at midnight Sunday to Thursday and at 1am on Fridays and Saturdays. Food will be served everyday from 7am to 11pm.

Children, accompanied by an adult, will be welcome in the pub up until 11pm, throughout the week.

The pub will be wheelchair accessible and have a specially-adapted toilet for people with disabilities (as well as baby change facilities) on the ground floor of the main pub.

Historical photos and details of local history, as well as artwork and images of local scenes and characters of the area, will be displayed in the pub, together with information boards relating to events.

A screen to the cellar displays a topography map of the Brecon Beacons National Park.