Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2746
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/10/1976
Date of Amendment
08/08/2000
Name of Property
Ye Olde Tippling Philosopher P.H.
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Caldicot
Town
Caldicot
Locality
Caldicot
Easting
348650
Northing
188080
Street Side
S
Location
About 500m east of the centre of Caldicot village. Gable end to road with forecourt to right.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
C18 origins, rebuilt in early to mid C19. Recently modernised including removal of external render. Local information shows that this was a public house by 1801 and that it had its own friendly society by 1837. Inquests into the deaths of workers on the great Severn Tunnel project of 1877-86 were held in this public house.
Exterior
Two-storey stripped rubble walls with rough quoins, yellow and red brick window surrounds plus an area of brick patching to first floor right. Blank gable end to road. Slate gabled roof without verges; rendered stack and external stone breast at south-west end. Entrance front with four 12-pane sash windows to first floor and, on ground floor, one of six vertical panes under stone lintel to left of offset doorway with arched vousoir lintol and boarded door. Three 16-pane windows to right in brick surrounds with keystones and panelled shutters internally.
Interior
The interior of the ground floor is all opened out as one bar and has two altered fireplaces.
Reason for designation
Included as an early/mid C19 public house with regional character and of some historic importance in relation to the workforce on the Severn Railway Tunnel.
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