Red Lion Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
Red Lion Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-hinge-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Red Lion Cottage, Smithy Bank, Alton, ST10 4AD
- OS grid reference
- SK 072 421
- Coordinates
- 52.97661, -1.89404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Red Lion Cottage is a house dated "A.K. 1657" that has undergone later remodelling. It is constructed of ashlar with herringbone tooling, while the front is partly rebuilt in brick and painted white. The roof is covered with plain tiles, featuring a brick integral end stack and a ridge stack. The building is aligned north-east/south-west and faces south-east. It has two storeys and a gable-lit attic with a toothed eaves course. The cottage consists of three bays, with the left-hand bay being a later addition.
The windows include 20th-century casements, a large ground floor window to the left, and a small fire window to the left of centre. There is a gable over the left-hand first floor window and a 20th-century gabled porch to the right of centre, which has a reset datestone. On the right-hand gable, there are blocked chamfered mullioned windows with rebated surrounds, two 2-light windows on the ground floor with straight hood moulds, one 4-light window on the first floor with a returned hood mould, and a single-light attic window also featuring a returned hood mould.
Local climate
Red Lion Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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