Ye Olde Tippling Philosopher P.H. is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 October 1976. Public house.
Ye Olde Tippling Philosopher P.H.
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pedestal-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Ye Olde Tippling Philosopher P.H., Caldicot
- OS grid reference
- ST 486 880
- Coordinates
- 51.58922, -2.74261
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ye Olde Tippling Philosopher Public House is a two-storey building featuring stripped rubble walls with rough quoins. It has yellow and red brick window surrounds, along with an area of brick patching on the first floor to the right. The gable end facing the road is blank. The roof is slate with a gabled design and lacks verges, while there is a rendered stack and an external stone breast at the south-west end.
The entrance front includes four 12-pane sash windows on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a doorway offset to the right, which features an arched voussoir lintel and a boarded door. To the left of the doorway, there is a window with six vertical panes under a stone lintel. To the right, there are three 16-pane windows in brick surrounds, each with keystones and panelled shutters on the interior.
Inside, the ground floor has been opened up into one bar area and contains two altered fireplaces.
Local climate
Ye Olde Tippling Philosopher P.H. receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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