Red Lion Hotel

The Red Lion Hotel is an early 16th-century inn, later converted into a hotel, with alterations from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and rebuilding and alterations in the mid to late 19th century. It is timber-framed with plaster infill, rendered and painted brick, and a front elevation cased in knapped flint with gault brick quoins and dressings. The roof is covered in plain tiles. There are three rectangular planned ridge stacks, two side stacks, and one stack with grouped shafts. The building has an irregular U-plan with varying roof heights, reflecting separate ranges.

The west elevation comprises two ranges, each of three timber-framed bays. The first floor has close studding with braces from posts to studs, some of which have been renewed. There are six first-floor flush-framed sixteen-paned hung sash windows, and three hung sash bay windows with narrow side lights.

The north elevation has a main entrance with a half-glazed two-panelled door under a gabled canopy with deep patterned bargeboards supported on shaped brackets. There are two windows set within segmental brick arches and three bay windows with four or five transomed casements. Five first-floor casement windows are also present.

Inside, there are carved ceiling beams and joists with folded leaf decoration, dating from the late 15th century and subsequently re-laid. The roofs are not visible. The inn was noted in 1622 for being well-suited for royal servants and travellers, and the innkeeper rented out pasture to drovers bringing cattle from East Anglia.