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Address 52-53 High St, Newport NP20 1GA, UK Hours Open today · 11AM–11PMMonday11AM–11PMTuesday11AM–11PMWednesday11AM–11PMThursday11AM–11PMFriday(Good Friday)11AM–11PMHours might differSaturday11AM–11PMSunday7–10:30PMSuggest an edit Similar The Bell Inn, The Dragonfly, Three Blackbirds Inn, The John Wallace Linton, The Ridgeway Bar And | ||
Newport ye olde murenger house the oldest pub in newport south wales
Ye Olde Murenger House is a Grade II listed public house on the High Street of Newport, South Wales. It replaced an earlier pub built on the same site in the early nineteenth century.
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- Newport ye olde murenger house the oldest pub in newport south wales
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Newport ye olde murenger house
History
The pub takes its name from the murenger, a person who collected taxes to pay for the upkeep of the town defences. A building on this site was first mentioned in 1533, a town house for the Herbert family of St Julians Manor. By the 17th century, it had become a pub called the Fleur de Lys. 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. A photo taken around 1900 shows the distinctive faux-Tudor jetties did not exist at the time and these were added after this date.
It became a Grade II listed building in 1951 because of its historic interest to the immediate area. 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. 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.
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.