13, RED LION STREET (See details for further address information)

No. 13 Red Lion Street, along with Nos. 3 and 5-9 Orford Yard, is a building dating from 1902, designed by Edward Boardman and Son for John Pollock, a veterinary surgeon. This structure, which originally served as a veterinary surgery, house, and livery stables, is now used for commercial purposes, including offices and restaurants.

The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features an ashlar ground floor. It has a pantile roof adorned with ornamental stacks on the house and an additional stack in the yard. The layout includes a courtyard plan, with the four-storey house and attic facing Red Lion Street, and two-storey former stables surrounding Orford Yard at the rear.

Architecturally, the house is in the 'Pont Street Dutch' style, showcasing a three-window range at the first and second floors, which consists of French windows and casements, along with a canted oriel window to the right and a tripartite window above it. The third floor has two 2-light windows and a bull's eye window above. Most windows are fitted with leaded lights. The building features stone bandings, string courses, and cut brick aprons, along with a stone-coped Dutch gable displaying the year 1902 in iron tie ends. An iron balcony is present at the first floor, while the ground floor includes a door and a 2-light window to the right, and a moulded archway to the left that leads to the yard. The arch spandrels are inscribed with 'Shoeing, Forge, Livery Stable' and the initials 'JP' for the patron.

The carriageway features part-glazed doors and casements with glazing bars, and a similar canted bay to the right facing the yard, with windows that mostly have curved iron grilles. Orford Yard contains various part-glazed doors and windows, including sliding doors to the former forge on the left, with casements above, and small windows on the first floor directly ahead with a door to the left. Above is a complete run of skylights, with a clapboarded and gabled hoist to the right and a stack to the left. The section to the right has an open ground floor and a horse ramp leading to the first-floor stable.

The interior of the former stables retains original cast-iron and boarded stable dividers, making this building a very complete example of a purpose-built city-centre veterinary surgery and livery stables.