Red Lion Hotel

The Red Lion Hotel is a public house, likely built in the late 18th century, remodeled in the late 19th century, and altered thereafter. It features white-painted stucco over uncoursed rubble with a slate roof. The building has a double-pile plan and a three-unit front range, standing two storeys high with six bays. Architectural details include banded corner pilasters, a first-floor band, a moulded eaves band, and a cornice. The doorway is located slightly left of center and is topped with an open-segmental pediment. The windows are four-pane sashes with raised sills, arranged in pairs, except the doorway replaces the left-hand window of the center pair. There are painted wooden signs alternating with pairs of openings on the ground floor, and a hanging sign on an ornamental iron bracket is fixed at the first floor to the left of the door. The rear of the building is not of special interest, and the interior has been remodeled. Historical photographs from Redruth Public Library, dated between 1862 and 1873, show the building with an unrendered facade of random rubble, two slightly lower storeys, and only three bays. The hotel forms a group with the former London Hotel and a telephone kiosk to the left.