Red Lion Inn

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET 849-1/10/63 (South side) No.56 Red Lion Inn

GV II

Public House. C16 or earlier, heightened and remodelled in C19. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof. 2 old rendered chimneys with tapered caps on rear wall. 2 rooms wide, 1 room deep, originally with central through-passage. Rear storage wing to right, now incorporated into C20 extension. 3-storeyed front range (probably 2 storeys originally). Single storeyed wing. 3 windows wide. Doorways in centre and at left-hand end of ground storey; 2 sash windows of 3 lights each. Upper storey windows also of 3 lights; that to right of second storey has small-paned sashes; remainder small-paned wood casements. Interior: ground floor of front range converted to a single bar. In rear wall of former left-hand room a stone chimneypiece (probably C16) with roughly shaped lintel on double rounded corbels. C17 ovolo-moulded beam over former passage. Between 1st and 2nd floors a winding wood staircase (probably early C18) with flat sinuous balusters and square newel with beaded corners.

Listing NGR: SX7580969995