The Red Lion

The Red Lion is a public house located on King Street in Ramsgate. It dates from the late 17th century and has been altered in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building is constructed of painted brick and features a slate roof. It stands three storeys tall with an attic and has a moulded string course parapet above a Mansard roof, which includes two stacks on the left side.

The front elevation has a single flat-roofed dormer, with two additional dormers on the right return. There is a boarded-up window opening on the second floor, and below it, a two-storey shallow canted bay with cornices on each floor, featuring three boarded openings on each level. The base of the building is tiled.

At the corner, there is a two-storey bow with boxed eaves, which has two boarded window openings on the first floor. The entrance consists of double half-glazed doors topped with a rectangular fanlight, supported by a bracketed cornice and an iron lamp on a plain bracket. The right return has two blocks, with two glazing bar sashes and three glazing bar sashes on the upper floor, and two sashes on the ground floor of the rear block. There is a triple pilastered doorway, which is boarded up, on the left side of the front block. All the boarded window openings originally contained glazing bar sashes.

The interior of The Red Lion was gutted by fire at the time of the survey. This public house was already in existence in 1717 and served as the meeting place for the officers of the Vill of Ramsgate until the first Market House was built in 1785. It is marked as The Red Lion on Collard and Hurst's 1822 map.