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
7329
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1951
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988
Name of Property
Kilvert Country Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Hay
Town
Locality
Easting
323024
Northing
242371
Street Side
Location
At the NE end of the Bull Ring on the corner with Bear Street, set back behind railed forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late Georgian remodelling of a C17 structure; shown as two properties on 1847 Tithe map. ca 1800
Exterior
Symmetrical 2-storey attic 5-window coursed rubble front with strikingly unusual rubble chimney stacks to the front corners - later buttresses to link them with gable ends. Steep slate roof with boxed eaves and 3 Victorian pitched roof dormers with pendants, finials and casement windows. Rubble voussoirs over 12-pane sash windows. Central bracket pedimented doorcase with decoratively carved entablature and 5-panel door. 2-window right hand gable end with 12-pane sashes to 1st floor. Extension forward to left, in part a modern conversion of the former doctor's surgery with swept roof dormers. Splayed back down cobbled lane, formerly to stables. Restaurant range behind (in line with main front) has hipped roof to left end and brick voussoir to 12-pane sashes and French windows. Modern kitchen cross range to rear and modern alterations to rear of main range with further rubble chimney stack.
Interior
Interior retains altered dog-leg staircase with closed string, moulded handrail and turned balusters. Studded walls and exposed beams and joists; open roof trusses with chamfered purlins. Panelled shutters to restaurant; angle fireplaces, blocked up in bar.
Reason for designation
Group value with Pemberton Cottage.
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