Ye Olde Murenger House

Ye Olde Murenger House facade

Ye Olde Murenger House is a Grade II listed public house on the High Street of Newport, South Wales.[1] It replaced an earlier pub built on the same site in the early nineteenth century.

History

The pub takes its name from the murenger, a person who collected taxes to pay for the upkeep of the town defences.[2] A building on this site was first mentioned in 1533, a town house for the Herbert family of St Julians Manor.[1] By the 17th century, it had become a pub called the Fleur de Lys.[1] According to Cadw the original building was a single-storey stone structure, which was demolished in 1816 and replaced by the current public house, established in 1819.[2] A photo taken around 1900 shows the distinctive faux-Tudor jetties did not exist at the time and these were added after this date.[3]

It became a Grade II listed building in 1951 because of its historic interest to the immediate area.[2] In a poor state of repair in the 1970s, the pub was taken over by Sam Smith's in 1980, repaired and re-opened in 1983.[1] In 2014 Ye Olde Murenger was suggested as a candidate for the Old Kent Road space on a Newport version of the board game Monopoly.[4]

Description

The pub has three jettied storeys plus an attic with the gable facing the street. The latter has a three-light casement window. The first and second storeys have broad oriel windows flanked by square panelling with a close studded band below. The facade of the ground floor is an early twentieth-century public house front on the left with a six-light window on the right side.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Royal Oak Hotel, 200 Broadway, Cardiff, CF24 1QJ". South Wales Echo. Cardiff. 16 May 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Ye Olde Murenger House PH, Stow Hill". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "NOW AND THEN: High Street, Newport". South Wales Argus. Newport. 10 December 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Newport man thinks medieval pub Ye Olde Murenger House, should feature on city Monopoly". South Wales Argus. Newport. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

Coordinates: 51°35′20″N 2°59′46″W / 51.5889°N 2.9962°W / 51.5889; -2.9962

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