Red Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
Red Lion Inn
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-bronze-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Red Lion Inn, 63, High Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 030 787
- Coordinates
- 50.6082, -1.95845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Inn, located at 63 High Street, is likely from the early 18th century. It features Purbeck stone walls that are colorwashed and a Purbeck stone roof. The building has two storeys, with modern windows and doors on the ground floor, while the first floor has double-hung sash windows. There are brick chimney stacks, and a modern brick addition with a flat roof at the rear. The inn is noted as RCHM Monument 38.
Local climate
Red Lion Inn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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