The Red Lion Inn

THE RED LION INN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098317
Date first listed:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
The Red Lion Inn
Statutory Address:
THE RED LION INN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098317
Date first listed:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
The Red Lion Inn
Statutory Address 1:
THE RED LION INN

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE RED LION INN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Broad Clyst
National Grid Reference:
SX 98230 97312

Details

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST BROADCLYST

9/62 The Red Lion Inn -

GV II

Large public house with attached outbuildings. C18, C19 and early C20. Cob, on stone plinth, rendered, with gabled-end roofs of clay plain tiles. Double depth building, the front range with a right-hand end wing, and a left-hand garage/outbuilding extension; the rear range (probably incorporating the earliest building) faces on to Queen's Square. 2 storeys throughout. Front: 4 window range with 2-light casement windows above, 8 panes to each light. To ground floor, 2 doorways at each end on either side of 2 windows, one with 2 early C19 sashes, 8 panes to each with margin panes. One end stack to left, 2 to right, all with brick shafts. Wing remodelled in circa 1900 with a jettied gable, red clay tile hung above, with one 2-light casement window to each floor. Extending to the left, the roof ridge at a much lower level, a 2-storeyed garage/outbuilding, tiled in fish scale pattern and half-timbered, with 2 extended roofs in either side and projecting forward on brackets of a central hipped gable. The right-hand end of the building curves round to the rear, 2 storeys but considerably lower than main ranges. Two gabled upper windows, each of 2 lights. Rear with one external stack with brick chimney shaft, a gabled upper window of 2 lights, and - to the right - a separately gabled cross wing, entered by means of external stone steps and with two 2-light windows with glazing bars to either side of doorway. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9823297316

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Legacy System number:
88377
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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