Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Belmont 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
- 52.07383, -3.12763
- Cadw reference
- 7285
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
Set back at the top of the street at the junction with Castle street; railed forecourt.
History
C18 origins with C19 alterations.
Exterior
2-storey, 3-window whitewashed brick front with hipped slate roof and end brick chimney stacks - replaced to right over broad chimney breast; dentil eaves band and 1 skylight. Small pane sash to 1st floor right, top hung casements to left, all with voussoir lintels as below. Tripartite ground floor small pane windows. Central porch, closed to sides, with fluted columns, half-glazed 4-panel door with panelled reveals. Pebbledash side and rear elevations with 2 dormers and some small pane sash windows; gabled and modern cross ranges.
Interior
The interior is largely mid C19 with reeded architraves to doorways; staircase reached under broad hallway arch and with scrolled end to balustrade.
Nearby in the register
- Hay Cottage BakeryCommercialunder 1 mi
- Steve Davies Domestic AppliancesCommercialunder 1 mi
- Mortimer HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- H.R.Grant including former Flannel mill to rearCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.