The Beaufort Arms Hotel, in Agincourt Square in the town of Monmouth, south-east Wales is a former coaching inn dating from the early eighteenth century.
[1] The interior was subject to major alteration during the conversion and the only historically significant remaining features are the entrance lobby, with Ionic pilasters and the top-lit staircase.
John Wesley visited the gardens in 1784, and wrote of "a gently rising ground on the top of which the gentry of the town frequently spend the evening in dancing.
Admiral Lord Nelson stayed here in July 1802 with Sir William and Lady Emma Hamilton, arriving by boat on the River Wye.
It became the town's principal coaching inn with direct transport to London by stagecoaches such as 'The Mazeppa' which, in 1830, left the yard at 5am and reached Regent Street at 8pm.
The Rolling Stones stayed here in September 1964 while touring the UK and a letter sent to a fan on headed Beaufort Arms Hotel notepaper written by bassist Bill Wyman, with another sheet of the whole band's signatures, was put up for auction in March 2020.