Ice House

Round the back of the Library is the old Ice House for Hay. Now it's the Poetry Bookshop, with a small flat above, but originally it was built as a sort of communal fridge for the town. In the days before electricity, blocks of ice would be cut in the winter, and food that needed to be stored would be packed in with it. The ice house is partly below ground, and with thick walls, so the temperature was constant, and the ice only melted very slowly.
A 'For Sale' board has just gone up outside the Ice House - the Poetry Bookshop is re-locating.
I hope they don't want to leave Hay altogether.