Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel) is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. Thatched house.
Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel)
- WRENN ID
- small-beam-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- Thatched house
- Address
- Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel), Hay, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 229 424
- Coordinates
- 52.07543, -3.12621
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ye Olde Crown Bar, part of the Crown Hotel, is a 2-storey building with a 3-window rubble front and a stone tiled roof featuring raised bracketed eaves and a rubble chimney stack next to the higher roof of a cross range. The building has small-pane sash windows, primarily 12-pane, except for a modern bay window beside the entrance on the ground floor right, which is sheltered by a stone hood. The entrance features a half-glazed door, and a Victorian range extends to the bottom left.
The rear is constructed of rubble and includes a taller cross range with a tripartite small-pane sash window that has cambered voussoirs. There is a modern extension with a hipped lantern, and the cellar entrance has boarded doors and a keg ramp.
Inside, the bar retains original details, including some feather stop-chamfered beams, post and panel partitions, and deep window splays. A doorway at the front connects the two bars. Various inset 19th-century plaques feature carved heads, some grotesque, as well as fleur de lys and the Beaufort family arms, which are also found in the Victorian hotel range. The raising of the eaves is evident on the first floor, where the principal rafters of the original trusses are clearly exposed.
Local climate
Ye Olde Crown Bar (Part of Crown Hotel) receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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