Savoy Theatre and Monmouth Music Box

Cement rendered and painted front with a steeply pitched slate roof with gable parapets and elaborate curved kneelers and masonry eaves. Late Georgian style three storey, three window front with replacement ground floor. Modern plate glass front with left-hand entrance to shop on left and to recessed opening to former theatre/cinema built behind on right. Above are plain sash windows with 6 over 6 panes to first floor and plastic 3 x 3 windows above, painted sills. Rear elevation shows large red brick over steel frame theatre with Welsh slate roof. Various openings including scenery doors onto Bell Lane.

The upper floors of the house are both plain and altered with the staircase changed and the rooms rearranged. The roof structure with heavy principals, purlins, ties and collar beams can be seen. Interior of cinema not seen at resurvey and the description is taken from the listing in 1989. Entrance foyer with panelled doors and original small-pane glazing to upward-curved lights; classical cornices. Remarkable circular panelled and pilastered pay-box to right with ironwork grille to glazing (this is said to have been built in character in 1956). Projection room straight ahead with stairs to left, half-open balustraded handrail. Fine auditorium and balcony (seating blocked off) with rich classical detailing to segmental, coffered vault; panelled walls and pedimented proscenium arch. Plaster cartouches with scrolled ornaments to ceiling ventilation grilles in circular surrounds divided by bay-leaf ribs. Figural medallions with swags to fluted wall-panels. Boxes to rear. Cartouches to balcony fronts, griffin corbels to gallery (without columns and with segmental vault). Shallow proscenium arch decorated with cartouche and heads to fluted Corinthian pilasters. Small panelled orchestra pit; small stage for theatre use with fly-tower equipment and external doorways for scenery.