The Hay Galleries, Hay-on-Wye, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0745 / 52°4'28"N

Longitude: -3.1253 / 3°7'31"W

OS Eastings: 322969

OS Northings: 242395

OS Grid: SO229423

Mapcode National: GBR F1.CFDG

Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.S34Z

Plus Code: 9C4R3VFF+RV

Entry Name: The Hay Galleries

Listing Date: 1 February 1988

Last Amended: 1 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7362

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300007362

Location: Opposite the Butter Market, stepped up from No 5.

County: Powys

Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)

Community: Hay

Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Early C19 front with earlier origins (said to date back to 1690).

Exterior

3-storey, 2-window coursed rubble front with full width shop front and plinth; band course above 1st floor voussoirs. Tall hipped slate roof with wide bracket eaves, continuing to left around W elevation as does the band course; skylights and rubble chimney stack with brick cap. 12-pane sash windows to 2nd floor and marginal glazing bars to 1st floor with voussoir lintels and keystones. Fine Victorian shop front with foliage carved fascia ends, bracket cornice and pilasters to ends and flanking central entrance; arched headed lights to shop windows with colonnettes and spandrel foliage trails; half-glazed doors.

12-pane sash windows to left hand side largely obscured by addition of the 2-storey No 5. Small courtyard to rear where the property adjoins No 2 Lion Street. Interior retains stone flagged cellars with some chamfered beams; open ground floor with cast-iron cylindrical columns.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Hay On Wye Post Office
Slightly advanced from No 4; stepped up from No 2.
II Ich Dien Dairy Ice-Cream
At the splayed corner with the northern arm of High Town and set in the slope back to the rear of No 5.
II Hay Whole Foods Delicatessen
Set into a row of street frontages stepped up from No 3.
II Havards
Stepped down from adjoining properties.
II Mike & Lin Harris
Set into a row of street frontages, No 2 stepped up to right.
II Cheese Market
In the Market Place below the Castle, detached to W end.
II Butter Market
To E of the Cheese Market; set in the slope between Market Street and High Town.
II NO.4 Lion Street, Powys
Set into a row of street frontages near the corner with St John's Place.

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The Hay Galleries

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