The Blue Lion Public House

The Blue Lion Public House is a public house built around 1900, likely designed by Sabine Baring-Gould. It features stone rubble construction with gabled slate roofs, some areas slate-hung, and brick chimneys, all in the Arts and Crafts style. The building has two storeys and an asymmetrical three-window front. On the right-hand end, there is a gabled cross wing, and on the left, a two-storey gabled porch. The porch includes a chamfered arched stopped stone doorway beneath a two-light casement window with six panes per light. The cross wing displays ornamental slate-hanging in the gable above a first-floor four-light casement window with eight panes per light, and there is an ornamental slate-hung pentice above the ground floor five-light casement window, also with eight panes per light. The remaining part of the building is whitewashed and rendered at the ground floor, with slate-hanging above and a moulded bressumer between the two sections. There is a later 20th-century addition at the left end. Sabine Baring-Gould served as both squire and parson of Lew Trenchard from 1881 until his death in 1924. He was a High Churchman, antiquarian, and a prolific author of fiction and theological works. In his book "An Old English Home," he dedicated a chapter to the history of the village inn and its role in village society.