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Latitude: 52.0731 / 52°4'23"N
Longitude: -3.1278 / 3°7'40"W
OS Eastings: 322795
OS Northings: 242233
OS Grid: SO227422
Mapcode National: GBR F1.CDRY
Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.Q5T3
Plus Code: 9C4R3VFC+6V
Entry Name: The Vicarage
Listing Date: 1 February 1988
Last Amended: 1 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7356
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300007356
Location: Set back behind railed forecourt at the junction with Oxford Road; outbuildings to right and part cobbled pavement to front.
County: Powys
Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)
Community: Hay
Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Clergy house
Formerly The George PH and sold in 1907 as George House.
Earlier C18 with later alterations.
2-storey, 5-window symmetrical coursed rubble front. Slate roof with cresting, skylights and slightly swept moulded eaves; red brick end chimney stacks. Horned sash windows without glazing bars; voussoir lintel, brick to ground floor. Fine central doorcase with bracket pediment and dentil cornice, voussoir lintel, reeded keystones and fluted pilasters; later 6-panel part-glazed door. Wide eaves to gable ends; 1 small pane sash to left. Central 2-window scribed cement render gabled cross range, to rear with C19 detail. Slate and concrete tile roof with tall rubble chimney stack heightened in brick; wide eaves and plane bargeboards. Cross range is extended to left rear and adjoins Radnor House. 3-light swept roof dormer to right rear over horned sash window. Unusually angular lugged architraves to centre and left rear, especially to attic, 12-pane sash windows to 1st and attic floors. Pitched roof extension beside cross range to right rear with greenhouse.
Disused at time of inspection (April 1987).
The interior retains dog-leg staircase with square newels, closed string, turned balusters and toad's back handrail; continues down into cobble floored cellars with slot for dog gate and heavily boarded door. Dado rails, 6-panel doors, panelled shutters and window seats to main ground floor rooms; bolection moulded chimney piece to right. Arched opening to rear of passage leads to kitchen with stop chamfered beams; irregularly shaped room to rear left. 6-panel doors to 1st floor, boarded to attic. 4-bay roof with A-frame trusses and chamfered purlins.
Group value with other listed items in Church Street and Castle Street.
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