The Red Lion Inn

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST BROADCLYST

9/62 The Red Lion Inn -

GV II

Large public house with attached outbuildings. C18, C19 and early C20. Cob, on stone plinth, rendered, with gabled-end roofs of clay plain tiles. Double depth building, the front range with a right-hand end wing, and a left-hand garage/outbuilding extension; the rear range (probably incorporating the earliest building) faces on to Queen's Square. 2 storeys throughout. Front: 4 window range with 2-light casement windows above, 8 panes to each light. To ground floor, 2 doorways at each end on either side of 2 windows, one with 2 early C19 sashes, 8 panes to each with margin panes. One end stack to left, 2 to right, all with brick shafts. Wing remodelled in circa 1900 with a jettied gable, red clay tile hung above, with one 2-light casement window to each floor. Extending to the left, the roof ridge at a much lower level, a 2-storeyed garage/outbuilding, tiled in fish scale pattern and half-timbered, with 2 extended roofs in either side and projecting forward on brackets of a central hipped gable. The right-hand end of the building curves round to the rear, 2 storeys but considerably lower than main ranges. Two gabled upper windows, each of 2 lights. Rear with one external stack with brick chimney shaft, a gabled upper window of 2 lights, and - to the right - a separately gabled cross wing, entered by means of external stone steps and with two 2-light windows with glazing bars to either side of doorway. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9823297316