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Cockcroft House (former Hay Union Workhouse)

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0713 / 52°4'16"N

Longitude: -3.131 / 3°7'51"W

OS Eastings: 322572

OS Northings: 242042

OS Grid: SO225420

Mapcode National: GBR F0.CRZ2

Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.P63G

Plus Code: 9C4R3VC9+GH

Entry Name: Cockcroft House (former Hay Union Workhouse)

Listing Date: 1 February 1988

Last Amended: 1 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7413

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007413

Location: Reached down a short drive; faces SW behind Church Terrace.

County: Powys

Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)

Community: Hay

Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

Tagged with: Workhouse

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History

Built 1837 for the Hay poor Law Union which was formed 26th September 1836 comprising 25 parishes;

Exterior

Modern conversion to housing. Standard grid plan form with transverse and spinal ranges linked by central octagonal block. Classical 8-bay freestone front with extensions to either end, central 2 bays advanced and gabled with plaque reading H U 1837; cill band and rusticated bull nosed plinth. Slate roof with cresting and wide eaves with brackets to gable. Voussoir lintels to small pane sash windows, all replaced; one window to right converted into a doorway and vice versa to centre. Bracket cornices to central doorways. 2-storey modern extension to left (No.1) with upper floor set back and with implied blocked windows; cement render right hand extension slightly set back with sash windows.

Rubble walled courtyards to N and S much modernised; casement windows with lintels. 3-storey octagon with 4-light pivot windows to flanking N and S ranges, brick chimney stacks including one that is especially tall. Single storey range with similar detail extends to E from octagon with louvred gablet dormers, also to lower attached hipped roof range at NE.

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