Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
7362
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1988
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988
Name of Property
The Hay Galleries
Address
4 High Town
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Hay
Town
Locality
Easting
322969
Northing
242395
Street Side
Location
Opposite the Butter Market, stepped up from No 5.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Early C19 front with earlier origins (said to date back to 1690).
Exterior
3-storey, 2-window coursed rubble front with full width shop front and plinth; band course above 1st floor voussoirs. Tall hipped slate roof with wide bracket eaves, continuing to left around W elevation as does the band course; skylights and rubble chimney stack with brick cap. 12-pane sash windows to 2nd floor and marginal glazing bars to 1st floor with voussoir lintels and keystones. Fine Victorian shop front with foliage carved fascia ends, bracket cornice and pilasters to ends and flanking central entrance; arched headed lights to shop windows with colonnettes and spandrel foliage trails; half-glazed doors.
12-pane sash windows to left hand side largely obscured by addition of the 2-storey No 5. Small courtyard to rear where the property adjoins No 2 Lion Street. Interior retains stone flagged cellars with some chamfered beams; open ground floor with cast-iron cylindrical columns.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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