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Latitude: 51.5892 / 51°35'21"N
Longitude: -2.7426 / 2°44'33"W
OS Eastings: 348650
OS Northings: 188080
OS Grid: ST486880
Mapcode National: GBR JJ.C2TR
Mapcode Global: VH87Z.DBY1
Plus Code: 9C3VH7Q4+MX
Entry Name: Ye Olde Tippling Philosopher P.H.
Listing Date: 28 October 1976
Last Amended: 8 August 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2746
Building Class: Commercial
Also known as: Ye Olde Tippling Philospher Inn
Ye Olde Tippling Philospher Inn, Caldicot
ID on this website: 300002746
Location: About 500m east of the centre of Caldicot village. Gable end to road with forecourt to right.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Caldicot
Community: Caldicot
Community: Caldicot
Built-Up Area: Cil-y-coed
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Pub
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.
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.
The interior of the ground floor is all opened out as one bar and has two altered fireplaces.
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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