Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cockcroft House (former Hay Union Workhouse)
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
- 52.07131, -3.13105
- Cadw reference
- 7413
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
Reached down a short drive; faces SW behind Church Terrace.
History
Built 1837 for the Hay poor Law Union which was formed 26th September 1836 comprising 25 parishes;
Exterior
Modern conversion to housing. Standard grid plan form with transverse and spinal ranges linked by central octagonal block. Classical 8-bay freestone front with extensions to either end, central 2 bays advanced and gabled with plaque reading H U 1837; cill band and rusticated bull nosed plinth. Slate roof with cresting and wide eaves with brackets to gable. Voussoir lintels to small pane sash windows, all replaced; one window to right converted into a doorway and vice versa to centre. Bracket cornices to central doorways. 2-storey modern extension to left (No.1) with upper floor set back and with implied blocked windows; cement render right hand extension slightly set back with sash windows.
Rubble walled courtyards to N and S much modernised; casement windows with lintels. 3-storey octagon with 4-light pivot windows to flanking N and S ranges, brick chimney stacks including one that is especially tall. Single storey range with similar detail extends to E from octagon with louvred gablet dormers, also to lower attached hipped roof range at NE.
Nearby in the register
- Rose CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Harley's AlmhousesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Harley's AlmhousesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Harley's AlmhousesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.