The Red Lion Public House

GODALMING MILL LANE SU 9643 NE (north side) 12/167 The Red Lion Public House 6.9.90 GV II

Hotel and attached Oddfellows Hall, now pub. C17, C18 and C19 with late C20 alterations. Former Oddfellows Hall of Bargate rubblestone with red-brick dressings, rendered at front; Welsh slate roof. Former hotel pebble-dashed at front, rear wall timber-framed with painted brick infill, rear wings of brick in Flemish bond; plain tile roofs. Former hall on left, early-mid C19 of one tall storey, 4 bays; former hotel of 4 storeys, 5 bays (four 1st-floor windows), to right. Former hall: plinth; entrance in bay 2 has stone steps to recessed C20 door with 6-pane overlight; sashes with glazing bars in reveals with stone sills, the openings formerly taller; 2 heraldic shields between openings; boxed eaves; hipped roof. Right-hand range: C17 timber-framed structure of 2+2 bays of different builds with 5th bay added to right, and rear corridor addition probably late C18, rear wing addition and refronting early C19, and further wing added at rear mid C19. Road front; entrance in bay 4 has C20 door in C19 door- case with pilasters and corniced entablature; wide C20 ground-floor windows, small-paned, of 3, 4 and 5 lights; corniced plat band. On 1st floor two 2-light C20 smell-paned casements to left; to right, 2 tripartite windows with 12-pane sashes flanked by 4-pane sashes and C20 sign-board between; to bay 3, C20 pub sign in old architrave, console-bracketed, with Ionic pilasters on plinths and dentilled cornice to entablature. Dentilled boxed eaves with wrought-iron pub sign projecting from right corner. Roof hipped on left, with stack at right end. Rear of right-hand range: square-panelled timber-framed wall; on 1st floor a small 2-pane casement to left and a 16-pane side-sliding sash to right; moulded dentilled eaves; 3 hipped gables. On left, short wing projects having basket-arched doorway on left, large tripartite window on right (with 12-pane sash flanked by 4-pane sashes) and on 1st floor 2 sashes with exposed boxes, of 16 and 12 panes. This wing links main range to parallel service range, of 2 wide bays, with inserted door and window to left bay, a wide window and door with header-brick arches to right bay, two 2-light small-pane casements to 1st floor, and hipped roof with eaves stack between bays. Interior: right-hand range has cross-beam between bays 4 and 5 with mortices insoffit from former end wall; another cross-beam between bays 2 -and 3 and one between bays 1 and 2, chamfered and with lambs tongue stops. Closed-string stair up to attic with stick balusters and columnar newel. Roof has collared principal rafter trusses with butt purlins, staggered to bays 1 and 2, and old rafters; former chimney, between bays 2 and 3, at rear, is truncated.

Listing NGR: SU9681843816