Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
44 Lion Street (2 storey range only)
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
- 52.07484, -3.12556
- Cadw reference
- 7390
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
Almost opposite the junction with High Town.
History
Dated 1886. Built by Robert Williams and Son as an agricultural hall; may once have been part of a large U-plan complex incorporating The Granary.
Exterior
2-storey, 4-window High Victorian gabled front; slate roof and wide boarded eaves. Lion to gable carries a shield inscribed R W & S 1886 over heavily moulded cornice and panelled fascia with inset glazed tiles. Dividing pilasters with foliated capitals and carved heads etc to both floors with cornice as before between 1st and ground floors. Recessed ground floor shop front with 3-light window to left; cusped timber brackets over panelled reveals with inset glazed tiles of animals; broad glazed entrance to right. Rubble side elevations with horned sashes to upper floor.
Interior
Open-plan interior retains contemporary detail including stop chamfered beams, cusped timber braces and broad staircase with Gothic balustrade. 7-bay open roof with cast-iron trusses and 4-bay narrower range to rear.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 46 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 47 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Quinto of HayCommercialunder 1 mi
- 41 Lion StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.