Nos 27 And 27A The Red Lion Hotel

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TA 1001-1101 9/74

CAISTOR MARKET PLACE (west side) Former Red Lion

(Formerly listed as 27 and 27A The Red Lion Hotel, previously listed as The Red Lion Inn)

1-11-66

G.V. II

Hotel and shop; C17, 1835, with C20 alterations. Rendered brick, stucco dressings, slate partially hipped roof, four brick ridge stacks. Three storey, five bay front, moulded cornice, lead downpipe with rainwater hopper. Off centre doorway covered by porch suported on quarter engaged Tuscan columns supporting a frieze and entablature. Porch has side lights. To left a further C20 glazed doorway, to right a modified C19 glazing bar sash. Beyond a basket carriage arch with plain capitals and a raised keystone. On the first floor are five glazing bar sashes. On the second floor five further similar windows. All sashes have narrow sills and shallow splayed stucco lintels. On the corner to High Street is a glazed door to former 27B and on the corner itself is a four light late C19 shop window with timber mullions which follows the curvature of the wall. On the upper floors are two similar windows all with shaped stucco keystones.

On the High Street is an irregular single bay of fenestration; on the ground floor a plain window, on the first floor a small opening light and on the second floor a blank opening. Further down High Street is an earlier but attached block, probably C17. This is of three irregular bays on the ground floor and two above and is of two storeys with a steeply pitched pantiled gabled roof with raised gable and kneeler. A central axial stack, and first floor band with plain eaves band. .Off centre C19 four panelled door with to right two glazing bar sashes. On the first floor two smaller similar windows. To rear, on first floor, large late C18 room with some contemporary fittings presumably former ballroom.

Listing NGR: TA1183801390