Red Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Public house. 5 related planning applications.

Red Lion Public House

WRENN ID
drifting-ledge-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1971
Type
Public house
Address
Red Lion Public House, Market Place, Thetford, IP24 2AL
OS grid reference
TL 871 830
Coordinates
52.41342, 0.75042
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Red Lion Public House is a public house built by order of the Town Council in 1837 and restored in 1960. It features a cut flint exterior with a gault brick front under a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The central entrance includes a glazed door with side lights, framed by a pair of fluted pilasters and topped with a triglyph frieze. There are canted bays on both the right and left, fitted with sash windows that have 2/1 glazing bars. On the first floor, a central tripartite window with 6/6 and 4/4 glazing is set behind a curving balustrade, flanked by 6/6 sash windows with gauged skewback arches. The hipped roof has two symmetrical stacks on the front slope. A two-storey wing extends down Well Street, although it has been somewhat modified internally. Inside, the main layout includes a bar to the right and left of the principal block, with details from the 20th century.

Local climate

Red Lion Public House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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