Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Harley's Almhouses
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
- 52.07075, -3.13072
- Cadw reference
- 7297
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 from the road behind grassed forecourt with lower rubble wall to front.
History
Group of 12 almshouses built in 1836; heightened to centre in 1927.
Exterior
Single storey, except Nos. 6 and 7 which are 2-storey, 1 window fronts; coursed rubble with plinth. Slate roof overhanging eaves and brick chimney stacks set diagonally, those to centre are taller, flanking 2-window pebbledash gable to Nos. 6 and 7. Voussoir lintels to tudor pointed windows and door openings. Paired casement windows with diamond leaded glazing and boarded shutters with C-shaped fastenings; boarded doors. Slated lean to brackets hoods, twinned except for end houses. Casement windows to 1927 addition, crucifix over datestone and coat of arms in diamond recess. Modern tablet below inscribed "Harley Almshouses, these almshouses were built and endowed by Frances Harley in memory of her Sister Martha Harley of Trebarried in 1836, they were modernised in 1974".
Modern windows to rear; lean to at centre.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.