Sycamore, Hay-on-Wye, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0758 / 52°4'32"N

Longitude: -3.1255 / 3°7'31"W

OS Eastings: 322959

OS Northings: 242531

OS Grid: SO229425

Mapcode National: GBR F1.C7D0

Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.S311

Plus Code: 9C4R3VGF+8Q

Entry Name: Sycamore

Listing Date: 1 February 1988

Last Amended: 1 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7324

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007324

Location: Slightly projecting from Brynhyfryd to left; in a row of frontages set back and above the road.

County: Powys

Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)

Community: Hay

Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Mid to late C18 (said to have been built at the same time Brynhyfryd).

Exterior

Nearly symmetrical Georgian 2-storey, attic and basement 3-window coursed rubble front. Slate roof with swept out boarded eaves and cement render chimney stack to right. 3 pitched roof dormer windows with small pane casement windows. Freestone lintels to sash windows below, 12 pane to 1st floor and 16-pane to ground floor; the right hand windows are slightly offset. Regency doorcase with bracket and panelled hood over reeded pilasters; panelled reveals and Gothic 4-panelled door. 4-light basement window to left, broader opening to right.

Whitewashed rubble rear with cross range.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II West House
Set into a row of frontages set back above the road with the old cobble pavement to front; stepped down from No 22
II Brynhyfryd
Set back and above the road with the old cobbled pavement to the front.
II The Poetry Bookshop
Set back and above the road with the old cobbled pavement to the front; stepped up from adjoining properties.
II Montpelier
Set back and above the road with the old cobbled pavement to the front; stepped up from adjoining properties.
II Chancery House (formerly Prospect House)
Set back from the road behind cobbled forecourt, Nos. 22 and 23 stepped up to left; modern railings to front.
II The Three Tuns P.H.
On the corner with Bridge Street; has been a public house since 1830.
II NO.5 Broad Street, Powys
At the corner with Bridge Street, stepped down from the Cafe Royal; formerly the Black Swan PH.
II Cafe Royal Restaurant & Bar
Stepped forward from adjoining properties.

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Sycamore

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