Latitude: 52.0759 / 52°4'33"N
Longitude: -3.1264 / 3°7'35"W
OS Eastings: 322896
OS Northings: 242551
OS Grid: SO228425
Mapcode National: GBR F1.C749
Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.R2JX
Plus Code: 9C4R3VGF+9C
Entry Name: NO.5 Bridge Street, Powys
Listing Date: 1 February 1988
Last Amended: 1 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7304
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300007304
Location: At the W end of the short terrace close to the River Wye; No 4 is below the road. Cast iron railings with finials and gates to front.
County: Powys
Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)
Community: Hay
Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Building
Late Georgian, ca 1825.
3-storey coursed rubble fronts; 3-windows to No 4 and offset 2-windows to No 5. Slate roof, wide boarded eaves and brick chimney stack. Mainly small pane windows; small pane casement windows to 2nd floor of No 5; freestone lintels and keystones to 1st and ground floors. Broad bracketed stone hoods to entrances with weathered fluted pilasters; panelled reveals and 6-panel doors with fanlights.
Asymmetrical right gable end with 2 arched openings leading into stone flagged and barrel vaulted cellars, said to have been used for storing salt. A further one towards rear is now blocked. The stairwell window to rear has Gothic Y-tracery and was originally in the Quaker Meeting House (built ca 1834) formerly adjacent overlooking the river; the window was inserted into the house after the railway company demolished the chapel in 1864.
No 4 retains an interesting interior. Stone staircase with 'S' carved tread ends timber uprights and swept up handrail; No 5 also said to have a stone staircase. 6-panel doors and panelled reveals to the front of the house; boarded doors to the back.
Group value with Nos. 1, 6 and 7.
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