Red Lion Hotel

The Red Lion Hotel is an inn dating from the early to mid 19th century, featuring a rendered exterior and a slate roof. The building has a symmetrical villa-like front range, with a narrower parallel range and a pavilion-like kitchen or service area, along with a long lateral wing set back to the right.

The main building is two storeys high with three sash windows, all set in slightly sunk surrounds. The ground floor includes an arched panel, with a combination of six, eight, and twelve-pane windows above. There is a central pair of panelled doors leading to a radial fanlight, accessed by three stone steps. The roof has a low pitch with box eaves, and there is a stack located to the left and rear.

To the left side of the building, the return features two eight-pane windows and a central eight-pane stair light, with a 20th-century glazed quadrant added to the former single-storey service range, which is rendered at the front and built of rubble at the rear. The right return has two eight-pane windows on each level. The long wing is rendered at the front and made of ashlar or rubble elsewhere, with various lights in sunk panels and a late 20th-century glazed door toward the left. The rear of the wing has a pantiled roof with a swept-down section. The rear of the main range includes a twelve-pane sash window and a door, with an attached two-storey pavilion-like unit to the right, which features an upper door leading to a steel escape stair.

The interior was only inspected on the ground floor, which has been extensively altered as the hotel is now part of the Harvester chain. Historically, this inn was prominently located at an important crossroads and near the Bath Union Workhouse, and it has been regularly refurbished over time.