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
7320
Building Number
20  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
01/02/1988  
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988  
Name of Property
Chancery House (formerly Prospect House)  
Address
20 Broad Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Hay  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
322950  
Northing
242507  
Street Side
 
Location
Set back from the road behind cobbled forecourt, Nos. 22 and 23 stepped up to left; modern railings to front.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Dated 1775 and initialled SP.  

Exterior
Georgian symmetrical 2-storey and attic 5-window roughcast front with coursed rubble plinth. Hipped slate roof with bracket eaves and 2 pitched roof dormers with horned sash windows; rendered end chimney stacks. Recessed 12-pane sash windows with keystones. Central hipped roof porch with bracket eaves carried on panelled pillars; panelled reveals and 6-panel door with intersecting tracery fanlight. 2-storey right side elevation with similar detail, 1-window to 1st floor, 2-windows to ground floor. Lower cross range continues up Chancery Lane and has rubble rear gable end. Roughcast rear with modern casement windows and one small pane sash. Modernised 2-storey cross range to right; massive rubble chimney stack is all that remains of a former range to left rear. Stone flagged rear courtyard.  

Interior
Interior retains broad entrance hall and openwell staircase with closed string, turned balusters and swept up handrail. Window seats, panelled shutters and 6-panel doors, arched recess to main bedroom.  

Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.  

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