The Judges' Lodgings, located in Whitecross Street, Monmouth, south east Wales, is an eighteenth-century building, with earlier origins, on the edge of St James' Square.

Although there were earlier houses on this site, the earliest recorded building is the Labour in Vain inn in 1756, when it also had a malthouse and stables.

It was known as Somerset House in the late eighteenth century, but was still the Labour in Vain in 1822, when it was used by officers of the Monmouth and Brecon Militia as a Mess, as an alternative to the Beaufort Arms, then the town's premier inn.

[2] The building lodged the judges for the Monmouth Assizes held in the Shire Hall,[2] including the trial of the Chartists, where John Frost and two other leaders of the Newport Rising were condemned to death in 1840.

"Respectable" society and those in authority were much in fear of Chartism, or indeed of giving any political power to the lower classes, and to guard against sedition Militia were stationed in Monmouth at the White Swan Inn.