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Bell House & Adjoining Smithy

A Grade II Listed Building in Hay-on-Wye, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.074 / 52°4'26"N

Longitude: -3.1247 / 3°7'28"W

OS Eastings: 323013

OS Northings: 242333

OS Grid: SO230423

Mapcode National: GBR F1.CFK1

Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.S4GD

Plus Code: 9C4R3VFG+H4

Entry Name: Bell House & Adjoining Smithy

Listing Date: 1 February 1988

Last Amended: 1 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7281

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007281

Location: Set back from the road behind front garden.

County: Powys

Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)

Community: Hay

Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: House Smithy

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History

Formerly the Bell Inn PH and previously known as Seymore House.

Earlier C18 origins with Victorian remodelling.

Exterior

3-storey, 3-window roughcast front with plinth. Slate roof with raised eaves; cement render chimney stack heightened in brick. Horned sash windows without glazing bars; splayed bay window to ground floor left. Pitched hood over half-glazed door to right. Lower rubble range adjoins to right with steep slate roof - formerly a smithy. 2-storeys, 2-windows; timber lintel over boarded doors and rubble chimney stack to right adjoining chapel house. Corrugated roof to rubble rear with boarded 1st floor openings - formerly also to front? (cf. recesses taller than windows).

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