The Red Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Public house, inn. 3 related planning applications.

The Red Lion Inn

WRENN ID
dark-passage-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Devon
Constituency
Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Public house, inn
Address
The Red Lion Inn, Broad Clyst, EX5 3EL
OS grid reference
SX 982 973
Coordinates
50.76643, -3.44448
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Red Lion Inn is a large public house with attached outbuildings, dating from the 18th century, 19th century, and early 20th century. It is constructed of cob on a stone plinth, rendered, and features gabled-end roofs covered with clay plain tiles. The building has a double depth design, with the front range including a right-hand end wing and a left-hand garage or outbuilding extension. The rear range likely incorporates the earliest part of the structure and faces Queen's Square.

The inn is two storeys high throughout. The front elevation has a four-window range with 2-light casement windows above, each light containing eight panes. On the ground floor, there are two doorways at each end flanking two windows; one of these windows features two early 19th-century sashes, each with eight panes and margin panes. There is one end stack to the left and two to the right, all with brick shafts. The wing was remodelled around 1900, featuring a jettied gable with red clay tiles hung above, and one 2-light casement window on each floor.

To the left, extending from the main building, is a two-storeyed garage or outbuilding, which has a roof tiled in a fish scale pattern and is half-timbered. This structure has two extended roofs on either side that project forward on brackets beneath a central hipped gable. The right-hand end of the building curves around to the rear, maintaining two storeys but at a considerably lower height than the main ranges. The rear includes one external stack with a brick chimney shaft, a gabled upper window with two lights, and to the right, a separately gabled cross wing accessed by external stone steps, which features two 2-light windows with glazing bars on either side of the doorway. The inn is included for its group value.

Local climate

The 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 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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