Red Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Inn. 3 related planning applications.

Red Lion Inn

WRENN ID
lunar-spindle-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 March 1986
Type
Inn
Address
Red Lion Inn, North Street, Babcary, South Somerset, TA11 7ED
OS grid reference
ST 564 286
Coordinates
51.05573, -2.62238
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Red Lion Inn is an inn with origins dating back to the 17th century, featuring several later additions. It is constructed from local lias stone that is roughly cut and squared, topped with thatched roofs between coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The building has an F-plan layout and stands two storeys high, with a three-unit west elevation that includes two gables and a lean-to. Each gable is adorned with a small-pane casement window above and 19th-century angled bay windows below, both topped with hipped slate roofs. The lean-to against the north gable has a plain doorway, while the south gable features a later porch with a catslide roof. Continuing north behind the lean-to, there is another plain door, and above it, in a half-hipped thatched dormer, is a horizontal bar casement window. Further north, there is a single-storey addition with a Welsh slate roof. Additionally, there are two 20th-century flat-roofed extensions at the rear. The interior has not been fully examined, but some earlier partitions and doorways are still visible on the ground floor.

Local climate

Red Lion Inn receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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