Red Lion Hotel

The Red Lion Hotel, located on the north side of High Street, is an early 18th-century building that was enlarged and remodeled between 1772 and 1847. The front is divided into three sections, each with four bays, and an eastern section was added in 1930. It is constructed of red brick with an old tiled roof and stands three storeys tall. The central section features a moulded brick stringcourse above the second-floor windows and a parapet with stone coping. The building is currently undergoing extensive alterations, but most of the front wall remains intact, with a new ground floor arcade being introduced, similar to that of the Guildhall.

A large Doric portico, which is to be moved, extends over the pavement and consists of four columns arranged in two pairs, which are three-quarters fluted. There are also similar pairs of pilasters, an entablature, and a lead roof that curves up in the center to form the base of a large statue of the Red Lion. The building features sash windows set in reveals beneath flat arches. Notably, Benjamin Disraeli delivered his first political speech here in 1852, either from a first-floor window or from the top of the hotel portico, and Winston Churchill also spoke from this location in 1945.