The Old Red Lion is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House, former inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Red Lion
- WRENN ID
- rough-remnant-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House, former inn
- Address
- The Old Red Lion, 84, Waterside, Kings Langley, WD4 8HH
- OS grid reference
- TL 074 028
- Coordinates
- 51.71445, -0.44588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Red Lion is a house, formerly an inn, dating to the late 16th century, with a southern bay from the 17th century and a renovation and southeast wing constructed around 1980. The building is timber-framed, with square framing visible in the north gable and rear, with brick nogging. The west front and north lean-to are red brick, the southeast wing is plastered, and all have steep old red tile roofs.
The house is two storeys high on the roadside facing west, with a rear outshut serving as a cellar on the east and a two-storey gabled extension to the southeast. A large external chimney, dating from the 17th century, is located at the south gable and features one flue behind another, with a tiled roof extending to a side oven. A single-flue chimney from the 18th century rises from the north gable. The building is four bays wide, with a narrow central bay and a long north bay containing an axial beam. The two southern bays are likely from the 17th century.
The brick west front has three 19th-century windows on each floor, and the doorway to the right of the lower middle window has been replaced by a similar two-light flush casement window under a segmental arch. Three-light casements are found in the outer windows. A brick eaves band and wooden boxed eaves are also present. The entrance was moved to the east side around 1980.
The interior features exposed timbers, with heavy curved braces to the tie-beams, and a clasped-purlin queen-strut-and-collar roof with wind braces.
Local climate
The Old Red Lion sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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