The Red Lion Public House

The Red Lion is a long-jetty house dating to around 1500, now operating as a public house. It is timber-framed and plastered with a roof of handmade red clay tiles, arranged in an L-shape, consisting of a main range of two long and one short bay, jettied on both sides, and a three-bay crosswing extending to the southwest. The building faces northeast and features an original chimney stack in the short bay where the main range meets the crosswing, with an external stack at the northwest end. A stair tower is situated in the west angle. There are modern single-storey extensions to the northwest (brick with a slate roof, 19th/20th century), to the southwest of the crosswing (brick and weatherboarding with a tiled roof, 20th century), and one flat-roofed extension to the southwest of the main range (20th century).

The house is two storeys with attics. The main entrance is through a plain boarded door, and there are double-hung sash windows, with 20, 24, and 16 lights (early 19th century and 20th century). The jetty continues across the crosswing, supported by a moulded and carved bressumer decorated with a helical vine-leaf trail, held up by five brackets on attached shafts with coronet capitals and drooping projections; two shafts have been restored. The first floor has double-hung sash windows with 12 and 24 lights (early 19th century), a small 20th-century casement window, and a late 19th-century horizontally-sliding sash window with 24 lights. The northeast gable of the crosswing retains original cusped bargeboards. The main chimney stack has been rebuilt with twin octagonal shafts.

Internally, some original framing is exposed. At the northwest end, blocked doorways, leading to a missing service wing, remain, with one 4-centred hollow-moulded doorhead still in place. A cross-entry has been blocked at both ends. The main range features a binding-beam and two bridging-beams, hollow-moulded and stopped, along with jointed joists with central tenons and soffit-spurs, a rare feature. There are grooves for sliding shutters, and the timber framing is characterized by close studding with curved tension braces. The mantel beam of the main hearth is crenellated, with replacement brickwork from the 20th century. The main range remains unpartitioned on both floors. The crosswing retains original partitions on both floors, dividing it into one and two bays. The roof of the main range was originally crownpost construction, but has been rebuilt in a clasped purlin form with attics inserted. The crosswing roof has two open bays, supported by plain crownposts with thin axial braces, and minor restoration has been undertaken. A horizontally-sliding sash window with 18 lights (early 19th century) is located in the rear wall of the main range on the first floor. Documentation from around 1920 indicates the central chimney stack then comprised a single octagonal shaft and two attached diagonal shafts. The vine-leaf trail design on the bressumer resembles the carved timber ceiling of the adjacent parish church. Historical records indicate the building was formerly the manor house of Moone Hall and was used to hold the court of the Duchy of Cornwall.