Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Boat Inn
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 March 1975
- Locality
- Chepstow
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Chepstow
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64485, -2.66946
- Cadw reference
- 2484
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Facing but set back a little from the River Wye.
History
Late C18, interior datestone 1789. Stands on the edge of the former dry dock which silted up in mid C19. Site also for pleasure trips on the river. Formerly known as The Chepstow Boat.
Exterior
Inn. Walls roughcast rendered and painted; steep-pitched slate roof with brick end and lateral stacks. Three storeys. Two-window range of 6-pane casements widely spaced. Central gabled porch with segmental-arched doorway, renewed door. An anchor is attached to the wall at front right.
Interior
Interior retains low ceiling, flag floor.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late C18 Inn retaining its character. Group value with other listed buildings in The Back and St Ann's Street.
Nearby in the register
- The Lord Nelson HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Warehouse adjoining N Wye HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Stuart House and attached former warehouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wye HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.