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
7330
Building Number
6
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1988
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988
Name of Property
H.R.Grant including former Flannel mill to rear
Address
6 Castle Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Hay
Town
Locality
Easting
322851
Northing
242333
Street Side
Location
Set into a row of street frontages, stepped up from the adjoining properties. The mill extends at an angle to rear set in the slope and end on to Belmont road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Ca 1860 to front; early C19 mill to rear (shown on 1847 Tithe map) converted into a printing house contemporary with the front; closed in 1956.
Exterior
Victorian 3-storey, 3-window scribed rendered front. Slate roof with wide front eaves; rubble end chimney stacks with stock brick caps; advanced chimney breast to left end. Sash windows with inset marginal glazing bars arched to first floor. Fine overall shop front with moulded cornice, raised fascia lettering and composite capitals to pilaster strips at right end and flanking left hand entrance which has tall arched panels to reveals and door. Arched lights to shop windows and splayed central entrance with double doors; panelled stallriser. Tripartite sash windows and 1 small pane sash window at rear with 6-panel door.
Slightly lower 4-storey and attic rubble former flannel mill to rear with half-hipped slate roof. 6-window N elevation with central cross gable containing semi-circular small-pane metal-frame casement window; voussoirs to timber frame windows below with small casement openings. Left hand bay immediately to rear of house has small pane sashes. 3-light attic window to NW end over combined 2nd and 1st floor openings; entrance below now converted to garage use. 2-swept roof attic windows to SW side. Boarded doors.
Interior
Reused chamfered beam inside the mill. Stone flagged and part cobbled cellars to house, possibly originally an outside courtyard (see inserted floor timbers).
Reason for designation
Former mill was largely disused at time of inspection (April 1987).
Group value with neighbouring listed items in Castle Street.
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