The Red Lion Hotel
THE RED LION HOTEL, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119946
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED LION HOTEL, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119946
- Date first listed:
- 07-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED LION HOTEL, WEST 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 HOTEL, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wareham Town
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 92307 87385
Details
1. 5190 WEST STREET (North Side)
The Red Lion Hotel SY 9287 1/80 7.5.52.
II GV
2. C18. Yellow brick, with red brick dressings, quoins and rubber voussoirs. Hipped tile roof. Hammer-dressed Purbeck stone plinth. 2 storeys and attics. Brick oversailing courses at eaves. Giant pilasters at each end. 3 ranges of sashes with glazing bars and keystones. 3 modern attic dormers. Double doors with 6 panels (4 fielded) and semi-circular fanlight, in reveals with fielded panelling. Doorcase with fluted Doric pilasters taking full entablature and open pediment with strapwork decoration in soffit. Red brick extension to west: 1 range of round-arched sashes with glazing bars, keystones and plain impost blocks. Chequer brick extension further to west: 2 ranges of flush-framed cased sashes with glazing bars and flush-panelled segment-headed door. East elevation has 4 ranges of sashes with glazing bars and rubber voussoirs, late C19 neo-Georgian doorcase, and 12-panelled gates with spikes in depressed-arched carriage entrance with plain imposts and keystone. 4 modern attic dormers.
The Red Lion Hotel and Has 2 to 12 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: SY9230787385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108110
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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