The Red Lion

The Red Lion is a public house that dates back to around 1400, with extensions from the 15th century, 16th century, and late 19th century. It features a timber-framed and rendered structure topped with a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys high, standing on a plinth, and has a jetty to the left side that returns to the left elevation on a dragon post. The right side has a moulded bressumer and eaves that are coved to a hipped roof, which includes a stack at the end right and is offset.

At the centre, there is a hipped two-storey porch supported by moulded brackets, featuring a four-light mullioned window. On either side of the porch, there are three and four-light mullioned windows on each floor. The entrance door is ribbed and studded, with a four-centred arched and moulded surround, accessed by a flight of five steps with simple iron rails and acorn finials. The left return has a continuous jetty on brackets and an irregular arrangement of glazing bar sashes and mullioned windows, along with a 19th-century end wing that includes three half dormers.

Inside, there is evidence of at least four different building phases. A brick-lined undercroft, possibly from the late 13th century, survives beneath a 14th-century open hall, which has a nine-foot long unmoulded crown post roof and an inserted 16th-century floor with moulded joists. The main body of the building is a late 15th or 16th-century continuous jettied range featuring moulded octagonal crown posts, two internal medieval doors, and signs of a smoke bay. The 'Sessions Room' contains a moulded four-centred arched stone fireplace. Additionally, there is a late 19th-century stable wing at the rear and an early 18th-century open well staircase with turned balusters.

The Inn is located on a site that may incorporate part of Wingham College and has historically served as a market house, manor court house, and Sessions House until 1883. Inside, there is also an early 18th-century sessions book preserved.