The Red Lion Public House

SJ 4623-4723 MYDDLE C.P. MYDDLE

15/98 The Red Lion Public 27.5.53 House

• II

House, now inn. Early C17 and mid-C17. Timber framed with red brick nogging, partly rebuilt in red brick; extended in dressed red sandstone; slate roof. Framing: small square panels (4 from sole plate to wall plate) with short straight corner braces. L-plan; 5 framed bays at right angles to the road with later wing to north-east. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic with addition of one storey and attic. North-east front: external lateral brick stack off-centre to left at rear consisting of C19 brick shaft with pilaster strips, central open diagonal brick decoration and C20 cap. 3 first-floor windows and 2 ground-floor windows; mid-C19 one-, 2- and 3-light wooden-framed cast-iron lattice casements. C20 boarded door to right with small flanking windows and enclosed late C20 gabled wooden porch. Gable end on to road: ground-floor 3- light lattice casement and first-floor 2-light lattice casement. Jettied gable probably restored in late C19 or early 020 with moulded bressumer on cusped brackets and truss with 2 collars. 2-light C19 cast-iron lattice attic casement. North-east wing: 2 large gabled semi dormers with 3-light wooden casements and planted timbers; large central integral lateral brick stack to front with pilaster strips and central open diagonal brick decoration. 3 ground-floor C20 diamond-leaded wooden casements. Evidence of blocked doorway between first and second windows from right (see straight joints). Interior: chamfered beams; pair of large open fireplaces with chamfered wooden lintels. David G. Hey, An English Rural Community: Myddle Under the Tudors and Stuarts, Leicester University Press (1974), p.87n.

Listing NGR: SJ4690823945