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Ye Olde Murenger House

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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. It has a painting of the former undefeated
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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
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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
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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
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facing the street. The latter has a three-light casement window. The first and second storeys have broad
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in 1980, repaired and re-opened in 1983. In 2014 Ye Olde Murenger was suggested as a candidate for the
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person who collected tolls for the building or repair of town walls. The taxes were called a
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job of a murenger, a person who collected tolls for the repair of the town walls, and is
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did not exist at the time and these were added after this date.
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The pub has three jettied storeys plus an attic with the
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Dragon Park, Wales National Football Development Centre
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The pub takes its name from the job of a murenger, a
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due to its historic interest to the immediate area.
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pub
mock Tudor
High Street, Newport, Wales
medieval
Grade II listed
medieval
murage
Cadw
mock Tudor
jetties
Sam Smith's
Old Kent Road
Monopoly
gable
oriel windows
Welsh
David 'Bomber' Pearce




"Royal Oak Hotel, 200 Broadway, Cardiff, CF24 1QJ"
South Wales Echo
Cardiff


"NOW AND THEN: High Street, Newport"

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