The Three Tuns Inn, Chepstow

The Three Tuns Inn, 32 Bridge Street, Chepstow

chepstow_three_tuns_posterThis building is thought to date from the early 17th century and to have been a pub for most of its existence. A tun is a large wooden cask for beer or wine.

Displayed on a wall by the guest rooms are the remnants of a recruitment poster (pictured right) for marines to fight against Spain. The poster may date from the 18th century and was found under floorboards during the building’s refurbishment.

In one of the guest bedrooms is a fireplace lintel with chamfered edge (pictured below). It appears to have been part of nearby Chepstow Castle previously.

Behind the building is a former bakehouse, built in the 18th or 19th centuries and probably detached originally. Most of its interior is taken up by a large faggot oven (which would have been heated using faggots, burning bundles of twigs). According to local lore, this oven may have been built to provide bread for the castle. Cadw, the historic monuments body, has suggested it dates from the late 15th or early 16th century. It was probably once a public bakehouse, where people brought their own dough for baking.

In 1899 thchepstow_three_tuns_lintele Three Tuns and an adjoining cottage were sold by the Duke of Beaufort’s Estates for £2,240 to the Arnold, Perrett Brewery of Gloucester. Sale particulars record that the inn was entered by a broad, stone-flagged passage. There was stabling for horses, a trap house for carriages and a yard with a gate opening towards the castle entrance.

Postcode: NP16 5EY    View Location Map

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