Red Lion is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. Public house.
Red Lion
- WRENN ID
- secret-tracery-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Red Lion, 87 Market Place, Swaffham, PE37 7AQ
- OS grid reference
- TF 819 089
- Coordinates
- 52.6477, 0.68884
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion is a public house that dates back to the early 18th century and has been altered in the 20th century.
The building features pebble-dashed and colourwashed flint and brick, topped with a roof covered in pantiles. It faces west onto the Market Place and has a wide rectangular plan with a long rear north wing.
On the exterior, the two-storey structure has a pitched roof with an internal gable-end chimney stack on the left side and another stack on the rear roof slope. The ground floor is illuminated by four two-over-two-pane horned sash windows, which are set within slightly recessed openings that have cambered heads. A 20th-century wooden door with upper glazed panels is located between the third and fourth windows. The first floor has three similar sash windows positioned directly beneath the eaves. A decorative cast iron swinging sign support extends from the eaves between the first and middle windows.
Inside, the ground floor has been opened up into a single space in the late 20th century.
Local climate
Red Lion sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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