Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
2256
Building Number
16
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/10/1965
Date of Amendment
10/08/2005
Name of Property
Red Lion House
Address
16 Drybridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Monmouth
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Overmonnow
Easting
350329
Northing
212513
Street Side
SW
Location
On the main street in Overmonnow, going north from St. Thomas' Square.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably early C18 in origin, with the main elevation given a new treatment in the early C19. The building was sometime the Red Lion Public House.
Exterior
Rendered and painted with pilasters to full height at sides and at centre, bands at first and second floors and an arch over centre first floor window, Welsh slate roof with red brick chimneys. Rectangular double depth plan with central entrance. Three storeys, five windows. Ground floor has a canted bay window on either side of central door, all linked under small slate lean-to roof, part glazed door up three stone steps with iron rails. The windows are 6 over 6 pane sashes flanked by 2 over 2. First floor windows are plain 6 over 6 sashes, second floor windows are 3 over 6, all with stone cills. Hipped and sprocketed roof with brick stack on either end wall. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Only the entrance hall was seen at resurvey and this had been altered in the late C20.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a distinctively designed classical facade and as a part of the important group of historic buildings in the suburb of Overmonnow.
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