Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chancery House (formerly Prospect 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
- 52.07554, -3.12564
- Cadw reference
- 7320
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 cobbled forecourt, Nos. 22 and 23 stepped up to left; modern railings to front.
History
Dated 1775 and initialled SP.
Exterior
Georgian symmetrical 2-storey and attic 5-window roughcast front with coursed rubble plinth. Hipped slate roof with bracket eaves and 2 pitched roof dormers with horned sash windows; rendered end chimney stacks. Recessed 12-pane sash windows with keystones. Central hipped roof porch with bracket eaves carried on panelled pillars; panelled reveals and 6-panel door with intersecting tracery fanlight. 2-storey right side elevation with similar detail, 1-window to 1st floor, 2-windows to ground floor. Lower cross range continues up Chancery Lane and has rubble rear gable end.
Roughcast rear with modern casement windows and one small pane sash. Modernised 2-storey cross range to right; massive rubble chimney stack is all that remains of a former range to left rear. Stone flagged rear courtyard.
Interior
Interior retains broad entrance hall and openwell staircase with closed string, turned balusters and swept up handrail. Window seats, panelled shutters and 6-panel doors, arched recess to main bedroom.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.
Nearby in the register
- MontpelierCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Poetry BookshopCommercialunder 1 mi
- West HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nationwide Building SocietyCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.