Grade II* listed pubs in Wales

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Answer 1

The Blue Anchor Inn

The Blue Anchor Inn is a Grade II* listed inn in Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.

It is a long low building with walls and low timber beams dated to 1380, with a thatched roof. The inn was used as a tobacco drying shed during the smuggling days. Until 1941 the Blue Anchor belonged to the Fonmon Estate. Bill Coleman became landlord and then passed it on to his son, John. John retired in 1987, passing it on to his two sons, Jeremy and Andrew Coleman who currently run it. The inn caught fire in 1922, 2004, and again in 2009, the last fire burning about 30% of the thatched roof.

In 2008, the "Great Pubs of Wales", presented by John Sparkes, was filmed here. In 2010 a scene from the Hollywood blockbuster Killer Elite starring Robert De Niro, Clive Owen and Jason Statham was also shot here.

The inn is a traditional Welsh thatch roofed, with old stonework and beams which retain a medieval feel. The Good Pub Guide said of "It's the appealing warren of little rooms and cosy corners in this character-laden, 600-year-old tavern that provide its appeal. The building has massive walls, low-beamed rooms and tiny doorways, with open fires everywhere, including one in an inglenook with antique oak seats built into its stripped stonework. Other seats and tables are worked into a series of chatty little alcoves, and the more open front bar still has an ancient lime-ash floor." The pub serves various ales and is also noted for its gastronomy.

Coordinates: 51°23′25″N 3°23′18″W / 51.39028°N 3.38833°W / 51.39028; -3.38833

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Answer 2

Robin Hood Inn, Monmouth

Robin Hood Inn, Monmouth

The Robin Hood Inn, Nos. 124 and 126, Monnow Street, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales is a public house of late medieval origins. It was Grade II* listed in 1952.

The Robin Hood Inn building has late medieval origins. It is constructed in stone, with a wide, fifteenth-century four-centre doorway and is a rare medieval survival in Monmouth. Post the Reformation, the town was a centre for Catholicism and the landlord in the 1770s, Michael Watkins, allowed Mass to be celebrated in an upper room of the pub. The Penal Laws against Catholics were in force until the Papists Act of 1778, and Watkins was amongst those who successfully petitioned Monmouth magistrates to allow a building that would become St Mary's Roman Catholic Church. This public house and the church that Michael Watkins lobbied for are two of the 24 buildings in the Monmouth Heritage Trail. A blue plaque was added to the exterior of the building in 2009, which celebrated the religious history of the building.

In 1848, one of the landlord's children accidentally set a curtain on fire by placing a candle too near it. The ensuing fire destroyed the curtain and a few items of clothing before it was contained. In 1882, the landlord, John Richards, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in his own house. He was found guilty and fined 10s and 7s costs. It was designated as a Grade II* listed building on 27 June 1952.

The Lonely Planet guide describes it as "the most family-friendly pub in Monmouth with a warm atmosphere and a big beer garden with children's play area."

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Answer 3

White Hart Inn, Llangybi

White Hart Inn, Llangybi

The White Hart Inn, Llangybi, Monmouthshire is an inn dating from the early 17th century. Located at the a crossroards in the centre of the village, it is a Grade II* listed building.

The building was begun in the very late 16th century or early 17th centuries.Cadw suggests a building date as early as 1590, but the architectural writer John Newman, recording the inn in the Gwent/Monmouthshire volume of the Buildings of Wales series, favours an early 17th century date. In the mid-17th century it became the property of Henry VIII as part of Jane Seymour's wedding dowry. The inn is often said to have a priest hole, and to have been the headquarters of Oliver Cromwell during his campaigning in Monmouthshire in the English Civil War, but the main sources do not support these suggestions.

In 2003 Philip Edwards, former King Alfred professor of English literature at Liverpool University suggested that T. S. Eliot made cryptic reference to this pub and the village well in his 1935 poem "Usk". The relevant lines read:

Coflein describes the building as a double-house, although sources agree that it appears to have been a single dwelling form its earliest construction. The building is white-washed and of two storeys with a roof of Welsh slate. It is constructed to an L-plan. Newman notes the "fine array" of mullioned windows and the plaster ceiling in the upstairs parlour, decorated with "sunflowers and fleurs-de-lys".

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