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
7398
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1988
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988
Name of Property
Rock House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Hay
Town
Hay-on-Wye
Locality
Easting
322985
Northing
242649
Street Side
NW
Location
Set in the slope at the N end of the town detached to right.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Mid C19 (not shown on 1847 Tithe map); said to have been built as the Manse to the 1845 Ebenezer Chapel.
Exterior
Gothic 3-storey, 3-window rock faced rubble front with emphasized central bay and end full height pilasters. Slate roof, wide boarded eaves and rubble end chimney stacks, to right extended in stock brick.
Tudor stone labels over Gothic small pane windows - 1st floor has paired casements to outer bays, narrow and fixed to centre; similar window to ground floor right. 4-centred entrance with stone bracketed hood and boarded door flanked to left by broader and fixed glazed modern window in similar style with concrete lintel. Cement render right side and lean-to extension to modernised rear.
Interior
The unusually grand former rear entrance is retained within the kitchen extension (ca 1970); doorcase with panelled pilasters and reveals. Stone fireplaces, cellar with well.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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