Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel), Hay-on-Wye, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.0754 / 52°4'31"N

Longitude: -3.1262 / 3°7'34"W

OS Eastings: 322911

OS Northings: 242494

OS Grid: SO229424

Mapcode National: GBR F1.CF5K

Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.R3N9

Plus Code: 9C4R3VGF+5G

Entry Name: Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel)

Listing Date: 1 February 1988

Last Amended: 1 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 7311

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300007311

Location: Stepped down from the Victorian Crown Hotel main building; formerly known as The Rose and Crown.

County: Powys

Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)

Community: Hay

Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

C17 with later fenestration.

Exterior

2-storey, 3-window rubble front; stone tiled roof with raised bracketed eaves and rubble chimney stack beside higher roof of cross range. Small-pane sash windows (mainly 12-pane) except to ground floor right which has modern bay window beside entrance under stone hood; half glazed door. Victorian range overlaps to bottom left.

Rubble rear with taller cross range which has tripartite small-pane sash window with cambered voussoirs. Modern extension with hipped lantern. Boarded doors to cambered cellar entrance with keg ramp.

Interior

Interior retains original detail. Main bar has some feather stop chamfered beams; post and panel partitions and deep window splays. Doorway to the front links the two bars. Various inset C19 plaques with carved heads (some 'grotesque'), fleur de lys and Beaufort family arms etc...., these are repeated in the Victorian Hotel range. The raising of the eaves is visible on 1st floor where the principal rafters of the original trusses are clearly exposed.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with other listed items in Broad Street.

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Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel)

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