Savoy Theatre and Monmouth Music Box

The Savoy Theatre and Monmouth Music Box is a late Georgian style building featuring a cement rendered and painted front, topped with a steeply pitched slate roof that has gable parapets, elaborate curved kneelers, and masonry eaves. This three-storey structure has a three-window front with a modern plate glass ground floor, which includes a left-hand entrance to a shop and a recessed opening leading to the former theatre/cinema on the right. The upper floors have plain sash windows with 6 over 6 panes on the first floor and plastic 3 x 3 windows above, all with painted sills.

The rear elevation reveals a large red brick theatre built over a steel frame, covered with a Welsh slate roof, and featuring various openings, including scenery doors that open onto Bell Lane. The upper floors of the house have been altered, with changes to the staircase and rearrangement of the rooms. The roof structure is visible, showcasing heavy principals, purlins, ties, and collar beams.

The interior of the cinema was not inspected during the resurvey, and the description is based on the listing from 1989. The entrance foyer has panelled doors and original small-pane glazing with upward-curved lights, along with classical cornices. A remarkable circular panelled and pilastered pay-box is located to the right, featuring an ironwork grille in the glazing, said to have been built in character in 1956. The projection room is directly ahead, with stairs to the left and a half-open balustraded handrail.

Inside the auditorium, which has a blocked-off balcony, there is rich classical detailing in the segmental, coffered vault, along with panelled walls and a pedimented proscenium arch. The ceiling features plaster cartouches with scrolled ornaments around ventilation grilles in circular surrounds, divided by bay-leaf ribs. Figural medallions with swags adorn the fluted wall panels, and there are boxes at the rear. The balcony fronts are decorated with cartouches, and griffin corbels support the gallery, which lacks columns and has a segmental vault. The shallow proscenium arch is embellished with a cartouche and heads on fluted Corinthian pilasters. There is a small panelled orchestra pit and a small stage for theatre use, equipped with fly-tower equipment and external doorways for scenery.