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Latitude: 52.0718 / 52°4'18"N
Longitude: -3.1293 / 3°7'45"W
OS Eastings: 322692
OS Northings: 242099
OS Grid: SO226420
Mapcode National: GBR F1.CLDB
Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.Q601
Plus Code: 9C4R3VCC+P7
Entry Name: Harley's Almshouses
Listing Date: 1 February 1988
Last Amended: 1 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7355
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300007355
Location: At the roadside on SW edge of the town; set into the slope.
County: Powys
Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)
Community: Hay
Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
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Group of 6 almshouses built in 1832; designed with 4 rooms each.
Symmetrical single storey coursed rubble front with half hipped slate roof and 3 diagonally set red brick chimney stacks with stock brick caps. Central broad gable over Nos. 15 and 16 with coat of arms recessed in diamond frame over stone tablet inscribed: "These Almshouses were erected and endowed by Frances Harley to the memory of her mother The Honourable Mrs Harley of Trebarried for the reception of 6 poor indigent women AD MDCCCXXXII". Voussoir lintels to Tudor pointed window and door openings. Paired casement windows with diamond leaded glazing; boarded shutters with 'C' shaped fastenings; boarded doors.
Plane gable ends; extension to rear.
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