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Latitude: 52.0749 / 52°4'29"N
Longitude: -3.1262 / 3°7'34"W
OS Eastings: 322908
OS Northings: 242432
OS Grid: SO229424
Mapcode National: GBR F1.CF5R
Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.R3NQ
Plus Code: 9C4R3VFF+WG
Entry Name: Clock Tower
Listing Date: 1 February 1988
Last Amended: 1 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7315
Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
ID on this website: 300007315
Location: At the top of the street at the splayed junction with Lion Street.
County: Powys
Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)
Community: Hay
Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Clock tower
Built 1884 by J C Haddon of Hereford. It originated in a legacy by Captain Brown for a clock for the church tower. This idea was expanded by the executors to include the town clock, public hall and corn exchange but only the former was built; cost £600.
High Victorian Gothic tall square tower with chamfered angles; rubble with some freestone dressings. Pyramidal slate roof in 2 stages with open bellcote and weathervane; pyramidal roof lucarnes to each face. Moulded eaves with machicolations. Round clock faces to each side set in pointed arched frames with linked hoodmoulds and stringcourse. Scalloped corbels to angles with 3 treefoils between; 2 arrowslits to each face. Heraldic band with set-offs below and diagonal buttresses with punched treefoil gablets. Double cusped arched openings to N and S sides with hood mouldings and nook shafts; blocked to S boarded double doors to N.
Group value with Tredegar House and other listed items in Broad Street.
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