Red Lion Hotel

SO 4051 - 4151 WEOBLEY CP BRAOD STREET (north end)

14/121 Red Lion Hotel (formerly listed as 20.2.53 Red Lion Hotel and Barn)

GV II*

House and outbuilding, now a hotel. C14, partly rebuilt C17, extended early C19, with some mid-C20 alterations. Timber-frame with rendered infill on a coursed rubble plinth, partly underbuilt in rubble, and extended in painted brick. L-plan, C14 cross-wing extending to north with a short C20 link block to the single-bay C14 outbuilding, the rebuilt hall range extends to the west and was extended in the C18. South front of two storeys with gabled cross-wing to right, underbuilt, with a 3-light casement to each floor. To left, three windows, two 2-light casements and a 3-light window. Ground floor has three 3- light casements with plank weatherings. Entrance to right of centre has a wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and flat canopy. There are panelled reveals and a panelled door under an overlight. Framing of gable end is two square panels high with the two outer panels each having a pair of curved braces forming two- centred arches. The truss above has a steeply cambered tie-beam and two raking struts with a central vertical strut to the collar. The east side of the cross- wing is jettied with curved braces rising form pilasters, that to the dragon beam on the corner rising from a moulded capital. The first floor has two blocked windows with three trefoil headed lights and pierced trefoil spandrels. At the north end of the ground floor a blocked doorway has moulded jambs and an ogee-head. The outbuilding to the rear is one bay of a larger building, with two pairs of massive cruck blades. (RCHM, 3, p 199, no 22).

Listing NGR: SO4020951731