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Brynhyfryd

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0758 / 52°4'33"N

Longitude: -3.1254 / 3°7'31"W

OS Eastings: 322963

OS Northings: 242540

OS Grid: SO229425

Mapcode National: GBR F1.C7D0

Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.S22Z

Plus Code: 9C4R3VGF+8R

Entry Name: Brynhyfryd

Listing Date: 1 February 1988

Last Amended: 1 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7325

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007325

Location: Set back and above the road with the old cobbled pavement to the front.

County: Powys

Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)

Community: Hay

Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Later C18 (said to be ca 1775)

Exterior

(The taller No 25 to left is a Victorian rebuild of the former coach house to this property).

Georgian 2-storey and attic, 2-window coursed rubble front with plinth. Steep slate roof with boarded eaves and red brick chimney stack; central pitched roof dormer with paired casement windows. Voussoirs to 1st floor and freestone lintels to ground floor; 12-pane sash windows, all offset to the left. Recessed entrance to left with 6-panel door and 2-pane fanlight, outside steps. Cellar opening to right. Small pane leaded glass window to rear and red brick cross range to left rear with horned sash windows.

Interior

Interior retains original roof timbers. Open well staircase.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Sycamore
    Slightly projecting from Brynhyfryd to left; in a row of frontages set back and above the road.
  • 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 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 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 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 Cafe Royal Restaurant & Bar
    Stepped forward from adjoining properties.

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