Red Lion Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
Red Lion Hotel
- WRENN ID
- frozen-screen-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1954
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Red Lion Hotel, 9 and 10, High Street, HP11 2AZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 866 929
- Coordinates
- 51.62911, -0.74988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Red Lion Hotel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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