The Red Lion Inn

LACOCK HIGH STREET ST 9168 (south side) 4/104 The Red Lion Inn 20,12.60 GV II

Inn, c1730, red brick with ashlar dressings, half-hipped Bridgwater tile roof and 2 stacks on rear roof slope. Tall, formal, 3-storey, 7-window front of 2-3-2 bays, with parapet and large plain brick semi-circular pediment. Ashlar plinth, raised piers of banded brick and stone flanking centre and at outer angles of principal floors, heavily moulded coved ashlar cornice over first floor, broken forward over piers, and plain ashlar piers to second floor. Moulded parapet coping. Segment-headed windows in raised moulded stone surrounds with keystones, 6-pane to second floor, 12-pane to first floor and mullion-and-transom to ground floor. Central panelled double doors in large similar surround with hood on brackets over. Attached to left is small ashlar-fronted 2-storey and attic C18 house with dormer, recessed cyma-moulded 2-light mullion windows and moulded cornice over ground floor. Two first floor windows, 3 to ground floor, the right window replacing a door. Mullion-and-transom stair light on rear wall. Rear of main range is rubble stone with 3-window range of 2-light cyma-moulded flush mullion windows. A large south-west rear wing in rubble stone with stone slate roof has 2 dormers and 5-window range of 2- light cyma-moulded flush mullion windows. Interior of front range has chamfered spine beams and large west end stone fireplace. In rear wing, mid C18 staircase with square newels, turned balusters and brackets to treads. Upstairs west end bolection moulded fireplace.

Listing NGR: ST9165568420