The Red Lion is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Inn. 4 related planning applications.

The Red Lion

WRENN ID
idle-rafter-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1986
Type
Inn
Address
The Red Lion, 1, High Street, Wooler, NE71 6LD
OS grid reference
NT 991 280
Coordinates
55.5459, -2.01546
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Red Lion is an inn that dates from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, with a top floor added in the late 19th century. It features scored stucco with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The building has three storeys and four irregular bays, with two lower wings that project to the rear, along with a later 19th-century third range that also projects between the other two wings.

The façade includes two-leaf, four-panelled doors in the second and fourth bays, which have raised surrounds. There is a two-light window in the left bay, and in the third bay, there is a 19th-century two-storey square bay window featuring three-light mullioned windows with eight-pane sashes and a castellated parapet. The remaining windows are twelve-pane sash windows.

The roof is gabled with flat coping and has corniced ridge and end stacks. Inside, the bar area contains a large fireplace with a massive lintel and a very rough bressumer, likely from the 17th century. There are several other plain old fireplaces, including one on the first floor with the date 1671 scratched on it. Additionally, there is a two-panelled door on the first floor, and some parts of the house inside and to the rear have walls over three feet thick.

Local climate

The Red Lion receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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