The Red Lion Public House

The Red Lion Public House is a grand inn built in 1903 in a Cotswold limestone vernacular style by C E Bateman. The building features a stone exterior and a slate roof, standing two storeys tall with four bays. The first bay includes an arched doorway with an elaborately sculpted head that extends to the sill of a four-light transom window on the first floor, flanked by concave-sided polygonal colonnettes. Next is a large canted bay window that rises through both storeys, accompanied by a subsidiary door. Above this door, framed in Gothic style, is a rampant lion and the words 'Ye Olde Red Lion' on a scroll beneath. The façade is completed with another large canted bay window. The building has a moulded eaves cornice adorned with fleurons and lions in the frieze. Inside, there is much re-used old timber that creates the appearance of a timber-framed structure. The left and right sides feature roughcast screen walls with modern iron gates between stone piers topped with urns. Additionally, there is a pedestrians' entrance in the walls with an original iron gate set within a moulded stone frame. This establishment is noted as the first of the Birmingham "reformed pubs."