Cafe Royal Fish & Chip Bar, Hay-on-Wye, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0757 / 52°4'32"N

Longitude: -3.126 / 3°7'33"W

OS Eastings: 322925

OS Northings: 242520

OS Grid: SO229425

Mapcode National: GBR F1.CF6L

Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.R3S4

Plus Code: 9C4R3VGF+7J

Entry Name: Cafe Royal Fish & Chip Bar

Listing Date: 1 February 1988

Last Amended: 1 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7310

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300007310

Location: Detached to left and set back from the Cafe Royal Restaurant. Formerly the Post Office, after it had occupied the present Radnor House.

County: Powys

Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)

Community: Hay

Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Dated 1896 and initialled TW, possibly a member of the Wellington family of Hay Castle.

Exterior

Late Victorian 1 storey and attic 3-bay Flemish bond brick gabled front with plinth and a 6 course deep fascia with chevron banding and daisy ornament. Slate roof with ridge cresting and wave ornamented bargeboards, pendant and finial; brick stack to right.Cambered brick voussoirs to attic small-pane cross-frame window; fluted keystone with fleuron decorated impost band and flanking tablets initialled to left and dated to right. Arched ground floor openings; broader to centre, with similar keystones and massive foliage carved bracket capitals on panelled pilasters. Fixed glazed windows (daisies repeated below to centre) and half glazed door to left.

Horned sash windows to left side; lower extension to rear and lean-to porch.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.

External Links

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Cafe Royal Fish & Chip Bar

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