The Red Lion Inn

The Red Lion Inn is a house that has been converted into an inn. It dates from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the late 16th century and early 19th century. The building is timber-framed, mostly plastered, and features a painted brick facade on the southeast side, topped with slate roofs.

This long-jetty house has three bays facing southeast and includes a late 16th-century inserted stack located one bay from the left side. There is a late 16th-century rear extension with two bays from the left end, which has a central stack added in the 19th century. Additionally, there is an early 19th-century rear extension with three bays from the right end, angled outward to form a V-plan, and featuring two internal end stacks. The building also includes two single-storey lean-to extensions from the 19th century in the rear angle.

The southeast elevation, which faces Church Hill, is two storeys high and features a splayed bay with 20th-century casements, two 19th-century tripartite sash windows with four, twelve, and four lights, and three early 19th-century sash windows with sixteen lights on the first floor. There is a six-panel door set in a panelled doorcase with a shallow hood above. The roof is hipped with a shallow pitch.

On the eastern elevation, which faces the courtyard or car park, there are two early 19th-century sashes with twenty lights on the ground floor, three sashes with twelve lights on the first floor, and a central six-panel door in a simple pedimented doorcase. The roof here is low-pitched.

Inside the street range, the building features moulded transverse and axial beams, with heavy joists that are horizontally sectioned and jointed to the beams using soffit tenons with diminished haunches. The stack has two depressed arches and has been significantly altered at ground floor level, although it remains unaltered on the first floor. The structure includes jowled posts and cambered tiebeams, but the roof has been completely rebuilt at a higher level.