The Red Lion Hotel

The Red Lion Hotel is a former coaching inn, likely dating from the 16th or 17th century, with substantial rebuilding and extensions in the mid-18th century. Later alterations and additions occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The building incorporates a variety of materials. Sections of the west wall and the chimney stack on the west elevation are of coursed carboniferous limestone rubble with millstone grit stone quoins, while other chimney stacks are brick. The brickwork utilizes English bond, English garden wall bond, and stretcher bond. Roofs are covered in plain clay tiles, with limestone slates forming the lower courses on the west side. The staircase may be constructed from Hopton Wood stone.

The main, three-storey, three-bay south elevation is arranged with the central bay set forward, forming a carriage entrance. The first floor of this central bay contains an assembly room. Behind this range is a mid-19th century staircase. The three-storey rear (west) wing serves as the principal bar area, connected through to an attached range to the north, which contains accommodation above. A two-storey lean-to wing stretches to the east rear. Barrel-vaulted cellars are located to the rear.

The south elevation features brick chimney stacks at either end of the hipped roof, a ground and first-floor cill band, a moulded cornice, and a central pediment. The set-forward central bay has a round-arched carriageway that incorporates a re-used 17th-century beam, a Venetian window on the first floor, and a Diocletian window above. Flanking bays contain six-over-six hornless sash windows on the ground and first floors and three-over-three hornless sash windows on the second floor, all with stone wedge lintels. The window arrangement is repeated on the east side elevation, although one second-floor window is blocked. The west rear wing has a pitched roof with gable end brick stacks and a substantial lateral stone stack with buttressing. Further stone additions are visible to the left, alongside a tall brick ridge stack and brick rebuilding on the east elevation. Two two-storey lean-to buildings form the east rear wing.

The interior features include a first-floor assembly room with plaster cornicing and a mid-18th century style stone fireplace (a replica installed in 2017). A mid-18th century stone cantilevered staircase features moulded treads in the lower section and a wrought iron balustrade. The addition attached to the north of the west wing contains 17th-century ceiling beams. There is potential for further historic fixtures and fittings to be concealed behind later finishes.