The Red Lion Inn

TL 6832 7/18 2.5.53

FINCHINGFIELD CHURCH HILL (north side) The Red Lion Inn

GV II

House, now an inn. Early C16, altered in late C16 and early C19. Timber framed, mainly plastered, with painted brick facade to SE, slate roofs. Long- jetty house of 3 bays facing SE, with late C16 inserted stack one bay from left side. Late C16 rear extension of 2 bays from left end, with C19 central stack. Early C19 rear extension of 3 bays from right end, angled outwards to form a V- plan, with 2 internal end stacks. 2 C19 single-storey lean-to extensions in rear angle. 2 storeys, S elevation (to Church Hill), one splayed bay of C20 casements, 2 C19 tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights, and on the first floor 3 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. 6-panel door in panelled doorcase with shallow hood. Hipped roof of shallow pitch. E elevation (to courtyard/car park), 2 sashes of 20 lights on ground floor, 3 sashes of 12 lights on first floor, and central 6-panel door in simple pedimented doorcase, all early C19. Low-pitched roof. The interior of the street range has moulded transverse and axial beams, heavy joists of horizontal section jointed to them with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. The stack has 2 depressed arches, much altered at ground floor level, stripped of plaster but otherwise unaltered on the first floor. Jowled posts, cambered tiebeams, but roof completely rebuilt at a higher level. RCHM 14.

Listing NGR: TL6856132822