The Lion Inn Opposite Junction With Eastwick Hall Lane

TL 4311 EASTWICK EASTWICK ROAD (east side) Eastwick village

10/7 The Lion Inn opposite junction with - Eastwick Hall Lane

GV II

House, now a P H. '1852' on quatrefoil datestone. For John Hodgson of Gilston Park to model design for middle-sized farmhouses used on his estate, possibly designed by P C Hardwick. Tall, red brick, 2 storeys, large, Gothic, former estate farmhouse facing W, already an inn in 1914. Built as new farmhouse of Green Man Farm, the farm buildings of which were rebuilt on the site to S by the Gilston Estate at the same period (of Eastwick Hall Farm c1855). Steep blue slate roofs,moulded bargeboards with octagonal moulded pendants and wide verge overhangs. Front has projecting cross wing on left hand and double-pile range on right. Gabled, single storey, projecting brick porch in angle, with gauged brick ogee arch over entrance, heavy moulded bargeboard with pendant and steep slate roof. 3- light windows under flat gauged arches, 2-light over porch. Transomed windows on Ground floor. An impressive red brick mid C19 Gothic estate farmhouse, little altered. Part of group of similar contemporary estate buildings in village centre.

Listing NGR: TL4349011742