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
2554
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/03/1975
Date of Amendment
12/11/2002
Name of Property
Five Alls Inn including iron forecourt railings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Chepstow
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Chepstow
Easting
353434
Northing
194001
Street Side
N
Location
At the bottom of Hocker Hill Street at its junction with Middle Street
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Present name first recorded 1847, deriving from the saying illustrated in the inn sign: a soldier (I fight for all), a bishop (I pray for all), a king (I rule all), a lawyer (I plead for all), John Bull (I pay for all). Reportedly the last figure originally depicted the Devil, but this was replaced at clergy request. Previously probably Crispin's Arms. Hocker Hill also called Hawker(s) Hill.
Exterior
Georgian inn. Walls rendered with scored roughcast and painted quoins; machine tile roof with rendered end stack right set back behind crowning cornice. Three storeys and cellar. Two- window range of sashes in exposed frames: narrow 8-pane to top floor and 12-pane to first floor, large inn signs between. Ground floor has two shallow cambered bow windows with plate-glass sashes, one each side of square-headed central doorway with double panelled door and deep moulded wooden hood with boarded soffit on brackets. Continuous fascia with moulded cornice runs over bow heads and front of door hood. Cellar entrance at street level right. Railed forecourt, the railings with spear finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian public house retaining character. Group value with other listed buildings in the lower part of Hocker Hill Street and Middle Street, the upper part of Bridge Street and the uphill end of Upper Church Street.
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