The Red Lion Public House and Attached Coachhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Red Lion Public House and Attached Coachhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-merlon-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Red Lion Public House and Attached Coachhouse, Leighton Buzzard Road (A4146), Great Gaddesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 040 102
- Coordinates
- 51.78112, -0.49246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Public House and attached coachhouse is an inn that has been converted into a public house. It dates from the early 18th century, with a brick front added in the early 19th century. The northern end has been cased in brick in the later 19th century, while the southern end is stuccoed. The building features a red brick front and northern end that has been painted, and a stuccoed southern end that is also painted. The timber-framed coachhouse is dark weather-boarded with red brick casing on the ground floor. It has steep old red tile hipped roofs.
The structure consists of two cells and three storeys, with a lobby entry and an internal chimney plan. It faces east and includes a cellar beneath, along with a two-storey rear wing at the northern end that has a chimney at the junction with the main building. The east front has two windows on each floor, with a blind central recess on the upper floors above a six-panel door set in a renewed pedimented doorcase. The second floor features square windows with recessed sashes, three over three panes, flat gauged arches, and stone sills. The first floor has wider and taller triple-sash windows with similar flat arches and stone sills. On the ground floor, there are two wide canted bays with glazing bars only in the upper sashes and flat tops. A half-glazed 19th-century door is located on the northern side within the canted bay, flanked by sashes with six over six panes. The lower two-storey coachhouse is attached at the northwest corner of the rear wing, facing east with double doors, and the southern part now serves as an entrance to the bar. There is also an upper-level door at the northern end of the coachhouse.
Local climate
The Red Lion Public House and Attached Coachhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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