The Red Lion Hotel

The Red Lion Hotel is an inn located adjacent to the pier in Clovelly. It features a raised plaster plaque that reads "C.H. 1928," indicating extensive rebuilding by architects H. Orphoot and Whiting of Bideford for Christine Hamlyn. The core of the building likely dates back to the 18th century, although the site itself is much older. The structure has a rubble plinth and is built of brick on the first and second floors, all of which is colourwashed. It has a slate roof with a clay ridge and a projecting band at the first floor level, along with five stacks that have restored brick shafts.

The hotel has an asymmetrical, roughly U-shaped plan, with the main rectangular range facing east and two wings projecting at right angles to the rear. The main range has six bays on the ground floor, featuring three cambered head window openings with tripartite 3:12:3 pane casements. These arches previously led to the estate coal cellars. On the first floor, there are six-pane cambered-head sash windows, with similar sash windows in gabled half-dormers on the second floor. A semi-circular headed throughway is located to the left of the ground floor, where there are also paired plank doors with a pent-roofed hood. A doorway on the right side under the throughway leads to the front of the building.

The rear wings contain casements with glazing bars and sash windows, with the left wing (as viewed from the rear) having mostly renewed windows. This wing features an exposed exterior wooden staircase and a weatherboarded gable end with paired plank doors. The other wing has been much rebuilt, with a third floor that jetties on the inner face in a vernacular style, and a flight of stone steps leading up to the first floor level. The seaward end of the main range has two gables and two projecting canted bays on the first floor, with hipped roofs, ornamental wavy bargeboards, and lattice balustrading on the balcony at the first floor level. A large wood signboard featuring a lion in relief, created by local woodcarver B. Fletcher around 1928, is mounted on a post. The interior has not been inspected.