Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bell House & Adjoining Smithy
Hay, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hay, Powys, designated on 1 February 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1988
- Community
- Hay
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07399, -3.12468
- Cadw reference
- 7281
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road behind front garden.
History
Formerly the Bell Inn PH and previously known as Seymore House.
Earlier C18 origins with Victorian remodelling.
Exterior
3-storey, 3-window roughcast front with plinth. Slate roof with raised eaves; cement render chimney stack heightened in brick. Horned sash windows without glazing bars; splayed bay window to ground floor left. Pitched hood over half-glazed door to right. Lower rubble range adjoins to right with steep slate roof - formerly a smithy. 2-storeys, 2-windows; timber lintel over boarded doors and rubble chimney stack to right adjoining chapel house. Corrugated roof to rubble rear with boarded 1st floor openings - formerly also to front? (cf. recesses taller than windows).
Nearby in the register
- The Bear (Allot Abraham & Son)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Salem Baptist Chapel & attached former School Room inc. Forecourt Wall, Railings, Gatepiers & StepsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pemberton CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Kilvert Country HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.