Latitude: 52.0754 / 52°4'31"N
Longitude: -3.1262 / 3°7'34"W
OS Eastings: 322911
OS Northings: 242494
OS Grid: SO229424
Mapcode National: GBR F1.CF5K
Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.R3N9
Plus Code: 9C4R3VGF+5G
Entry Name: Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel)
Listing Date: 1 February 1988
Last Amended: 1 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7311
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300007311
Location: Stepped down from the Victorian Crown Hotel main building; formerly known as The Rose and Crown.
County: Powys
Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)
Community: Hay
Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
C17 with later fenestration.
2-storey, 3-window rubble front; stone tiled roof with raised bracketed eaves and rubble chimney stack beside higher roof of cross range. Small-pane sash windows (mainly 12-pane) except to ground floor right which has modern bay window beside entrance under stone hood; half glazed door. Victorian range overlaps to bottom left.
Rubble rear with taller cross range which has tripartite small-pane sash window with cambered voussoirs. Modern extension with hipped lantern. Boarded doors to cambered cellar entrance with keg ramp.
Interior retains original detail. Main bar has some feather stop chamfered beams; post and panel partitions and deep window splays. Doorway to the front links the two bars. Various inset C19 plaques with carved heads (some 'grotesque'), fleur de lys and Beaufort family arms etc...., these are repeated in the Victorian Hotel range. The raising of the eaves is visible on 1st floor where the principal rafters of the original trusses are clearly exposed.
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