The Red Lion

A 3-bay public house of 2 storeys and attic, of rubble stone under a steep slate roof and external stacks with drip stones. The front is rendered in the lower storey, with rubble-stone exposed in the upper storey, below a rendered eaves band. There is a simple C19 slate veranda across the breadth of the front, on 6 cast-iron columns. Openings all have keystones. Windows are 4-pane horned sashes, larger in the lower storey, of the late-C19 but in earlier openings. The central doorway has a broad 2-panel door.

The rear is roughcast, and has 4-pane sash windows in both storeys on the R-hand side. There is a central doorway with panel door of c1900. To its L is a narrow roughcast lean-to under a corrugated-iron roof, and then two outshuts under slate roofs, the tap room and kitchen attached to 4 Market Square.

The ground floor has an entrance hall, with tiled floor and stairs at the rear, and rooms R and L. Rooms have plain cross beams, mostly papered over. The bar is on the R-hand side of the entrance hall. This is simply fitted with a boarded wainscot and wood surround to the fireplace, which otherwise has mid-C20 glazed tilework. In the rear wall is a hatch and a split door in a boarded partition to the tap room. Fixed to the back wall of the tap room is a bench on which the barrels were placed. Later shelving was for bottles. From the tap room is access to a rear kitchen, which has no historical features of interest except for a red and black tile floor. From the entrance hall a fielded-panel door opens to the private parlour on the L side. This room has one cross beam, papered over, a panelled dado and fireplace with mid-C20 glazed tile surround.

The full-height dog-leg stairs has turned balusters and square newels. The first-floor room over the parlour has a fielded-panel door and fireplace in a wood surround. The attic room above it has a C19 boarded door. The first-floor room over the bar retains a cast-iron fireplace in a wood surround. The 3-bay roof is ceiled at collar-beam level.