Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Section of the Boundry Wall to Hay Castle
Hay, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1988
- Community
- Hay
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07404, -3.12630
- Cadw reference
- 7341
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
Adjoining No 30 at SW end and continuing to the corner with the Market Place; set in the slope.
History
C19; possibly erected by Sir Joseph Bailey after he purchased the castle in 1844.
Exterior
Coursed rubble wall with plinth. Includes an advanced and taller 4-centred entrance directly in line with the now blocked NW (town) entrance to the castle house; one finial retained and panelled and studded door. Pilaster to left end beyond which the wall steps and curves down around the corner.
Group value with Hay Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Hay & Cusop War MemorialNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Hay CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- Former Coach-House & Stable Range to Hay CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- River Wye BooksellersCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.