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Chancery House (formerly Prospect House)

A Grade II Listed Building in Hay-on-Wye, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0755 / 52°4'31"N

Longitude: -3.1256 / 3°7'32"W

OS Eastings: 322950

OS Northings: 242507

OS Grid: SO229425

Mapcode National: GBR F1.CF9X

Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.R3Z6

Plus Code: 9C4R3VGF+6P

Entry Name: Chancery House (formerly Prospect House)

Listing Date: 1 February 1988

Last Amended: 1 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7320

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300007320

Location: Set back from the road behind cobbled forecourt, Nos. 22 and 23 stepped up to left; modern railings to front.

County: Powys

Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)

Community: Hay

Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Dated 1775 and initialled SP.

Exterior

Georgian symmetrical 2-storey and attic 5-window roughcast front with coursed rubble plinth. Hipped slate roof with bracket eaves and 2 pitched roof dormers with horned sash windows; rendered end chimney stacks. Recessed 12-pane sash windows with keystones. Central hipped roof porch with bracket eaves carried on panelled pillars; panelled reveals and 6-panel door with intersecting tracery fanlight. 2-storey right side elevation with similar detail, 1-window to 1st floor, 2-windows to ground floor. Lower cross range continues up Chancery Lane and has rubble rear gable end.

Roughcast rear with modern casement windows and one small pane sash. Modernised 2-storey cross range to right; massive rubble chimney stack is all that remains of a former range to left rear. Stone flagged rear courtyard.

Interior

Interior retains broad entrance hall and openwell staircase with closed string, turned balusters and swept up handrail. Window seats, panelled shutters and 6-panel doors, arched recess to main bedroom.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.

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