Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brynhyfryd
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
- 52.07584, -3.12546
- Cadw reference
- 7325
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 and above the road with the old cobbled pavement to the front.
History
Later C18 (said to be ca 1775)
Exterior
(The taller No 25 to left is a Victorian rebuild of the former coach house to this property).
Georgian 2-storey and attic, 2-window coursed rubble front with plinth. Steep slate roof with boarded eaves and red brick chimney stack; central pitched roof dormer with paired casement windows. Voussoirs to 1st floor and freestone lintels to ground floor; 12-pane sash windows, all offset to the left. Recessed entrance to left with 6-panel door and 2-pane fanlight, outside steps. Cellar opening to right. Small pane leaded glass window to rear and red brick cross range to left rear with horned sash windows.
Interior
Interior retains original roof timbers. Open well staircase.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.
Nearby in the register
- SycamoreDomesticunder 1 mi
- West HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Poetry BookshopCommercialunder 1 mi
- MontpelierCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.