Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Main Entrance to the grounds of Hay Castle
Hay, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 24 October 1951
- Community
- Hay
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07328, -3.12649
- Cadw reference
- 7408
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 a splayed angle to the road and with drive leading up into the inner bailey.
Exterior
C17 rusticated gate piers with cornices and high ball finials (see Gwernyfed); double boarded gates. Rubble walls curved back to either side with vertically laid coping stones; to left the wall runs as far as the step down to the lower rubble boundary wall.
Reason for designation
Group value with Hay Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding Range to SW of Hay CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Coach-House & Stable Range to Hay CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- TrergelliDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fine FareCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.