Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
7281
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1988
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988
Name of Property
Bell House & Adjoining Smithy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Hay
Town
Locality
Easting
323013
Northing
242333
Street Side
Location
Set back from the road behind front garden.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Formerly the Bell Inn PH and previously known as Seymore House.
Earlier C18 origins with Victorian remodelling.
Exterior
3-storey, 3-window roughcast front with plinth. Slate roof with raised eaves; cement render chimney stack heightened in brick. Horned sash windows without glazing bars; splayed bay window to ground floor left. Pitched hood over half-glazed door to right. Lower rubble range adjoins to right with steep slate roof - formerly a smithy. 2-storeys, 2-windows; timber lintel over boarded doors and rubble chimney stack to right adjoining chapel house. Corrugated roof to rubble rear with boarded 1st floor openings - formerly also to front? (cf. recesses taller than windows).
Interior
Reason for designation
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