Red Lion Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1969. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
Red Lion Hotel
- WRENN ID
- north-stone-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1969
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Red Lion Hotel, 5, Town Street, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5BD
- OS grid reference
- ST 618 436
- Coordinates
- 51.19097, -2.54696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red Lion Hotel is an inn built around 1800. It features a rendered exterior with a tiled roof and coped verges on the left side, along with brick stacks. The building is three stories high and has four bays. On the ground floor, there are tripartite sash windows set in reveals, with a string course directly above. The first floor has one tripartite window on the left side, while the other windows are 12-light sashes. The second bay from the left has a wide square-headed door opening, which is flanked by Tuscan pilasters that support an entablature, with 20th-century doors. The building is finished with a moulded eaves cornice.
Local climate
Red Lion Hotel receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 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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