The Red Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Red Lion Inn
- WRENN ID
- final-sandstone-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Red Lion Inn, 14, High Street, Biddenden, TN27 8AH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 850 384
- Coordinates
- 51.11516, 0.643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Inn is a timber-framed building dating from the 16th century or earlier, which was refaced in the 18th century with painted brick. It stands two storeys tall and features a parapet with a central pediment and a hipped tiled roof. The inn has four casement windows and two doorcases with flat hoods above. The eastern doorcase includes a door with six fielded panels. An early 19th-century addition extends from the ground floor at the west corner. One of the fireplace lintels inside the building is dated 1586. In front of the inn, there is contemporary paving made of Bethersden marble that forms a footpath extending approximately 12 yards to the southeast.
Local climate
The Red Lion Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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