Harley's Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. Almshouse.
Harley's Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- stony-rotunda-moth
- 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
- Almshouse
- Address
- Harley's Almshouses, 14 Church Street, Hay, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 226 420
- Coordinates
- 52.07169, -3.12934
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Harley's Almshouses is a group of six almshouses built in 1832, designed with four rooms each. The building features a symmetrical single-storey front made of coursed rubble, topped with a half hipped slate roof. It has three diagonally set red brick chimney stacks with stock brick caps. A central broad gable over Nos. 15 and 16 displays a coat of arms set in a diamond frame above a stone tablet that reads: "These Almshouses were erected and endowed by Frances Harley to the memory of her mother The Honourable Mrs Harley of Trebarried for the reception of 6 poor indigent women AD MDCCCXXXII." The windows and doors have voussoir lintels with Tudor pointed openings. There are paired casement windows featuring diamond leaded glazing, boarded shutters with 'C' shaped fastenings, and boarded doors. The gable ends are plain, and there is an extension at the rear.
Local climate
Harley's Almshouses 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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