The Red Lion Inn
THE RED LION INN, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115632
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED LION INN, CHURCH HILL
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- Date:
- 2002-05-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/06844/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115632
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED LION INN, CHURCH HILL
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 INN, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finchingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6856132822
Details
TL 6832
7/18
2.5.53
FINCHINGFIELD
CHURCH HILL
(north side)
The Red Lion Inn
GV
II
House, now an inn. Early C16, altered in late C16 and early C19. Timber
framed, mainly plastered, with painted brick facade to SE, slate roofs. Long-
jetty house of 3 bays facing SE, with late C16 inserted stack one bay from left
side. Late C16 rear extension of 2 bays from left end, with C19 central stack.
Early C19 rear extension of 3 bays from right end, angled outwards to form a V-
plan, with 2 internal end stacks. 2 C19 single-storey lean-to extensions in
rear angle. 2 storeys, S elevation (to Church Hill), one splayed bay of C20
casements, 2 C19 tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights, and on the first floor 3
early C19 sashes of 16 lights. 6-panel door in panelled doorcase with shallow
hood. Hipped roof of shallow pitch. E elevation (to courtyard/car park), 2
sashes of 20 lights on ground floor, 3 sashes of 12 lights on first floor, and
central 6-panel door in simple pedimented doorcase, all early C19. Low-pitched
roof. The interior of the street range has moulded transverse and axial beams,
heavy joists of horizontal section jointed to them with soffit tenons with
diminished haunches. The stack has 2 depressed arches, much altered at ground
floor level, stripped of plaster but otherwise unaltered on the first floor.
Jowled posts, cambered tiebeams, but roof completely rebuilt at a higher level.
RCHM 14.
Listing NGR: TL6856132822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115161
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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