Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
7387
Building Number
39
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1988
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988
Name of Property
Richard Booth's Bookshop Ltd. Warehouse, to rear of
Address
39 Lion Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Hay
Town
Locality
Easting
322959
Northing
242442
Street Side
Location
On the corner with Brook Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Earlier C19 (shown on 1847 Tithe map)
Exterior
2-storey, 3-window coursed rubble front; slate roof with skylight to right, brick end chimney stacks. 12-pane sashes to 1st floor with voussoir lintels, the right hand window is blocked and the other two have window-box holders. Central 2-light shop window with cornice and end pilasters; boarded door to left leading into cross passage and recessed entrance to right with 4-panel half glazed door, panelled reveals and pilasters. Shop window with similar pilasters returned around corner. 2 sash windows, as on front, to right end.
Attached to rear is a rubble cross range extending down Brook Street, the southern end is domestic with small pane sash windows. Beyond that extends a 3-storey warehouse set in the slope with undulating slate roof and 3-tier boarded doors, the top one with swept roof. Louvred ventilator beyond and various camber headed openings. Recessed broad entrance at right end with one brick jamb. Lower 2-storey corrugated roof range attached at end and rubble cross range extends into large courtyard created between this property and The Limited Bookshop.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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