Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Wheatsheaf Inn PH
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
- 52.07481, -3.12479
- Cadw reference
- 7385
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
On the corner with Brook Street, opposite St John's Chapel.
History
Late C17/early C18 origins with C19 alterations.
Exterior
2-storey, 4-window scribed render timber frame front with plinth; lean-to at left. Hipped slate roof with bracket eaves, modern skylights and rubble chimney stack. Small pane sash windows, mostly 12-pane (only 3 to 1st floor); paired modern windows to ground floor right. 6-panel door off centre to left; 6-pane sash to left end over roughcast lean-to also with sash windows. Modern alterations to rear. The interior is said to be largely altered but retains rubble fireplace with timber lintel to ground floor.
Reason for designation
Group value
Nearby in the register
- 37 Lion StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 39 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- St John's ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Warehouse to rear of 39 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.