The Red Lion is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. A Georgian Inn. 6 related planning applications.
The Red Lion
- WRENN ID
- spare-trefoil-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Red Lion, High Street, Gillingham, SP8 4AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 806 265
- Coordinates
- 51.03771, -2.27685
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion is an inn, likely built in the mid-18th century. It features rendered and rubble walls with a tiled, gable-ended roof and end brick stacks. The building has a dentilled eaves cornice and stands two storeys high with a five-window range. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, although there is a 20th-century part-glazed door. The interior has undergone significant alterations, but some stop-chamfered beams remain.
Local climate
The Red Lion receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 6 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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