Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Harley's Almshouses
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
- 52.07177, -3.12933
- Cadw reference
- 7353
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 roadside on SW edge of the town; set into the slope.
History
Group of 6 almshouses built in 1832; designed with 4 rooms each.
Exterior
Symmetrical single storey coursed rubble front with half hipped slate roof and 3 diagonally set red brick chimney stacks with stock brick caps. Central broad gable over Nos. 15 and 16 with coat of arms recessed in diamond frame over stone tablet inscribed: "These Almshouses were erected and endowed by Frances Harley to the memory of her mother The Honourable Mrs Harley of Trebarried for the reception of 6 poor indigent women AD MDCCCXXXII". Voussoir lintels to Tudor pointed window and door openings. Paired casement windows with diamond leaded glazing; boarded shutters with 'C' shaped fastenings; boarded doors.
Plane gable ends; extension to rear.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.