7356

 

II  

Designated  

01/02/1988  

01/02/1988  

The Vicarage  

 

Powys  

Hay  

 

 

322795  

242233  

 

Set back behind railed forecourt at the junction with Oxford Road; outbuildings to right and part cobbled pavement to front.  

Domestic  

 

Formerly The George PH and sold in 1907 as George House. Earlier C18 with later alterations.  

2-storey, 5-window symmetrical coursed rubble front. Slate roof with cresting, skylights and slightly swept moulded eaves; red brick end chimney stacks. Horned sash windows without glazing bars; voussoir lintel, brick to ground floor. Fine central doorcase with bracket pediment and dentil cornice, voussoir lintel, reeded keystones and fluted pilasters; later 6-panel part-glazed door. Wide eaves to gable ends; 1 small pane sash to left. Central 2-window scribed cement render gabled cross range, to rear with C19 detail. Slate and concrete tile roof with tall rubble chimney stack heightened in brick; wide eaves and plane bargeboards. Cross range is extended to left rear and adjoins Radnor House. 3-light swept roof dormer to right rear over horned sash window. Unusually angular lugged architraves to centre and left rear, especially to attic, 12-pane sash windows to 1st and attic floors. Pitched roof extension beside cross range to right rear with greenhouse. Disused at time of inspection (April 1987).  

The interior retains dog-leg staircase with square newels, closed string, turned balusters and toad's back handrail; continues down into cobble floored cellars with slot for dog gate and heavily boarded door. Dado rails, 6-panel doors, panelled shutters and window seats to main ground floor rooms; bolection moulded chimney piece to right. Arched opening to rear of passage leads to kitchen with stop chamfered beams; irregularly shaped room to rear left. 6-panel doors to 1st floor, boarded to attic. 4-bay roof with A-frame trusses and chamfered purlins.  

Group value with other listed items in Church Street and Castle Street.