The Red Lion Inn

The following building shall be added:

ROMAN ROAD TL 60 SE (West Side)

12/1003 The Red Lion Inn

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House, now inn. Mid-late C17; refaced in late C18 brick; mid C19 lean-to to rear and extension to left. C17 timber frame encased in late C18 Flemish bond brick; gabled plain tile roofs; brick ridge and right end stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Mid C19 beaded 6-panelled door, with late C19 porch to front. Gauged brick flat arches over C19 horned tripartite sashes with glazing bars to ground floor, and over late C18 twelve-pane sashes on first floor. C17 cross wing to left, of similar materials, has gabled front with similar arch over similar tripartite sash, and first floor 2-light casement with glazing bars; reset C17 timber framing, reworked in C20, to gable . Mid/late C19 brick and tile wing added to left, and mid C19 lean-to to rear. Interior: stop-chamfered beams to left (with ogee stops) and right; exposed C17 timber framing to rear and, with arch braces, to left. First floor not inspected. Truncated tie beam and tiebeam with mortices for arch braces to cross wing on left. History: orginally built as a farmhouse, and listed in Manor records of 1694 as "Kettles". Purchased in 1719 by John Swan, and leased in 1729 by his widow to Edmund Garrett of Margaretting, innholder. Formerly known as the Butcher's Arms, it acquired its present name in the l840s.

Listing NGR: TL6653601463