The Three Horseshoes, Monmouth

The Three Horse Shoes
The Three Horse Shoes, Monmouth
Former names	The Three Horse Shoes Inn
General information
Type	ex-Public House (1888–2018)
Address	21 Drybridge Street
Town or city	Monmouth
Country	Wales
Coordinates	51.80908°N 2.7213°W / 51.80908; -2.7213
Completed	Before 1888
Landlord	Not a pub

The Three Horseshoes used to be a public house in Drybridge Street in the Overmonnow area of Monmouth, Wales. The pub has also been used as an Inn and also known as The Three Horse Shoes Inn. The building has been a Grade II Listed building since 15 August 1974. Appears of 19th century but of C17th origin. 2 storeys, roughcast as stone with a hooded doorway^[1][2]

The pub ceased trading in 2018.

History

The pub was originally set up by Blacksmith William Philips in the 1880s. The forge that Philips set up was also in Drybridge Street and had been set up in 1859. The Three Horse shoes name coming from the business that Philips was picking up from passing trade where a horse had shed a shoe.^[3]

In 1923 Osbert Wheeler was the publican the Three Horse Shoes yard was occupied by a horse breaker called Victor Mackie.^[3]

The pub completely ceased trading in 2018, and the building was stripped of all its pub-related fixtures, then left empty for 4–5 years. It last changed hands in 2023 and it is not expected to be re-opening as a pub.

Notes

1. "Drybridge Street, No 21;Three Horse Shoes Inn (36822)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
2. "Listed Buildings in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales". Retrieved 8 April 2012.
3. Heather Hurley, The Pubs of Monmouth Chepstow and The Wye Valley, Logaston Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-904396-87-1, page 38