The Red Lion
THE RED LION, 1, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085339
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED LION, 1, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085339
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED LION, 1, KING STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED LION, 1, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsgate
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 38331 64934
Details
RAMSGATE KING STREET TR 3864 NW (south-east side) 13/236 No. 1 (The Red Lion) 13.9.74 GV II Public house. Late C17, altered C18 and early C19. Painted brick with slate roof. Three storeys and attic with moulded string course parapet to Mansard roof with 2 stacks to left. Single flat roofed dormer to front elevation, and 2 to right return. Window opening, boarded up, on 2nd floor, with 2 storey shallow canted bay below with cornices on each floor, with 3 boarded openings at each floor. Tiled base. Two storey bow to corner with boxed eaves, with 2 boarded window openings on 1st floor, and double half-glazed doors with rectangular fanlight and bracketted cornice and iron lamp on plain bracket. Right return with 2 blocks, with 2 glazing bar sashes and 3 glazing bar sashes on upper floor, and 2 to ground floor to rear block, with triple pilastered doorway, boarded up, to left (front block). All boarded window openings originally glazing bar sashes. Interior: gutted by fire at time of survey. The public house was existing in 1717 when it was used as the meeting place of the sessions of the officers of the Vill of Ramsgate (until the first Market House was built in 1785). (See Busson, Ramsgate, 97; see also Mirams, Old Ramsgate Pubs, II. Marked as Red Lion on Collard and Hurst's 1822 map).
Listing NGR: TR3833164934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mirams, M D, Old Ramsgate Pubs, ()
Busson, C, Book of Ramsgate, (), 97
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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