The Red Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Red Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-rubblework-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Red Lion Public House, Church Street, Steeple Bumpstead, CB9 7DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 679 410
- Coordinates
- 52.04275, 0.44777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Public House is an inn that dates from the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is roughcast rendered, with a facade of red brick laid in Flemish bond, and is topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of four bays arranged approximately east to west, with a central chimney stack located one bay from the west end, which is from the 17th century. There is a parallel range to the south from the 18th century and a rear extension at the east end with its own axial chimney stack from the 19th or 20th century. Additionally, there are single-storey extensions to the west from the 20th century.
The facade is symmetrical and features a plastered dado. The entrance consists of a six-panel door set within a doorcase that has panelled reveals and a dentilled open pediment, along with a fanlight that has radiating tracery. There are two pairs of double-hung sash windows with six-light upper sashes and one-light lower sashes, all under segmental brick arches. On the first floor, there are three double-hung sash windows with two-light upper sashes and one-light lower sashes, also under segmental brick arches. Both roofs of the building are hipped.
Inside the rear range, there are plain-chamfered axial beams with plain stops and a clasped purlin roof. The front range has transverse and axial beams that are boxed in. A sale catalogue from 1887, which is framed and displayed in the bar, describes the building as The Lion commercial inn, which was then part of the Bower Hall estate.
Local climate
The Red Lion Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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