Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Thornton House
Hay, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1988
- Community
- Hay
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07408, -3.12330
- Cadw reference
- 7275
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Detached to the right and set in the slope.
History
Early C18, said to be ca. 1720, and at some time before 1822 it was a soapworks.
Exterior
2-storey, 3-window roughcast front. Steep slate roof, dentil eaves and rubble end chimney stack with weathercoursing. 12-pane sash windows to 1st floor; shallow 4-pane horned sashes below. Offset entrance to ground floor with broad bracket hood, reeded pilasters, panelled reveals and 6-panelled door. Whitewashed rubble gable ends to right with dripmould over attic window.
Rubble garden revetment wall to right retaining railings. Said to retain original roof construction and internal framed partitions.
Reason for designation
Goup value with neighbouring listed items in Bear Street.
Nearby in the register
- HafodwenDomesticunder 1 mi
- MidstoneDomesticunder 1 mi
- 19 Bear StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wellington HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.