Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Bridge Street
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
- 52.07593, -3.12644
- Cadw reference
- 7304
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
At the W end of the short terrace close to the River Wye; No 4 is below the road. Cast iron railings with finials and gates to front.
History
Late Georgian, ca 1825.
Exterior
3-storey coursed rubble fronts; 3-windows to No 4 and offset 2-windows to No 5. Slate roof, wide boarded eaves and brick chimney stack. Mainly small pane windows; small pane casement windows to 2nd floor of No 5; freestone lintels and keystones to 1st and ground floors. Broad bracketed stone hoods to entrances with weathered fluted pilasters; panelled reveals and 6-panel doors with fanlights.
Asymmetrical right gable end with 2 arched openings leading into stone flagged and barrel vaulted cellars, said to have been used for storing salt. A further one towards rear is now blocked. The stairwell window to rear has Gothic Y-tracery and was originally in the Quaker Meeting House (built ca 1834) formerly adjacent overlooking the river; the window was inserted into the house after the railway company demolished the chapel in 1864.
Interior
No 4 retains an interesting interior. Stone staircase with 'S' carved tread ends timber uprights and swept up handrail; No 5 also said to have a stone staircase. 6-panel doors and panelled reveals to the front of the house; boarded doors to the back.
Reason for designation
Group value with Nos. 1, 6 and 7.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- OakhurstDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.