The Red Lion Inn

The Red Lion Inn is an inn dating from the early 19th century, and possibly replacing an earlier building. It was extended to the north and east during the 20th century.

The building is constructed of red brick, with a plastered facade on its primary (west) elevation. The roof is covered in concrete tiles. The plan is loosely T-shaped, comprising a principal, southern range facing Bailey Head, an accommodation wing to the north, running east at a right angle to the principal range, and a later 20th-century extension running north from the accommodation wing.

The principal range fronting Bailey Head is of two storeys plus a cellar, arranged across five bays under a pitched roof. The west elevation is loosely symmetrical. The central bay of the ground floor features a canted bay window with a central six-over-six glazed timber sash window, flanked by a pair of four-over-four glazed timber sashes. Entrances are located in the first and fourth bays from the north gable wall; the southern entrance is now blocked. These entrances share a design incorporating Doric half-columns rising to an entablature above the doorway. The main entrance, in the northernmost bay, has a four-panelled door within a plain timber surround with a two-pane overlight. There are windows with stucco cills either side of the main entrance. To the north within the northernmost bay is a narrow sash window with four-over-four glazing and horns. To the south is an eight-over-eight glazed timber sash with horns. In the southernmost bay is another eight-over-eight glazed timber sash window with horns and a stucco cill. On the first floor, three evenly-spaced eight-over-eight glazed timber sashes are present, each with a stucco sill.

Adjoining the principal range to the north is a three-storey wing, with a pitched roof and an east-west orientation. Its west elevation has eight-over-eight glazed timber sash windows with stucco cills on the ground and first floors, and a three-over-three glazed timber sash window on the second floor. The northern half of this west elevation is largely hidden by an adjacent indoor market building. The rear, north elevation of the north wing is of exposed red brick and features a series of uPVC casements alongside a round-arched timber window on the ground floor. A 20th-century single-storey lean-to abuts the southern end of the north wing elevation, and a larger single-storey extension extends northwards, abutting the adjacent indoor market building.