Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel)
Hay, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1988
- Community
- Hay
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07542, -3.12621
- Cadw reference
- 7311
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
Stepped down from the Victorian Crown Hotel main building; formerly known as The Rose and Crown.
History
C17 with later fenestration.
Exterior
2-storey, 3-window rubble front; stone tiled roof with raised bracketed eaves and rubble chimney stack beside higher roof of cross range. Small-pane sash windows (mainly 12-pane) except to ground floor right which has modern bay window beside entrance under stone hood; half glazed door. Victorian range overlaps to bottom left.
Rubble rear with taller cross range which has tripartite small-pane sash window with cambered voussoirs. Modern extension with hipped lantern. Boarded doors to cambered cellar entrance with keg ramp.
Interior
Interior retains original detail. Main bar has some feather stop chamfered beams; post and panel partitions and deep window splays. Doorway to the front links the two bars. Various inset C19 plaques with carved heads (some 'grotesque'), fleur de lys and Beaufort family arms etc...., these are repeated in the Victorian Hotel range. The raising of the eaves is visible on 1st floor where the principal rafters of the original trusses are clearly exposed.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.
Nearby in the register
- Seven StarsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barclay's Bank HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Nationwide Building SocietyCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cafe Royal Fish & Chip BarCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.