Red Lion Hotel
RED LION HOTEL, WHITTLESFORD BRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128090
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Red Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- RED LION HOTEL, WHITTLESFORD BRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128090
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Red Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED LION HOTEL, WHITTLESFORD BRIDGE
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:
- RED LION HOTEL, WHITTLESFORD BRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittlesford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48470 47274
Details
TL 4847 DUXFORD WHITTLESFORD BRIDGE 12/82 Red Lion Hotel 22.11.67 GV II Inn now a hotel. Early C16 with later C16, C17 and C18 alterations rebuilt and altered in mid to late C19. Timber-framed with plaster infill and rendered, painted brick, front elevation cased in knapped flint with gault brick quoins and dressings; plain tile roofs. Three rectangular planned ridge stacks, two side stacks and one stack with grouped shafts. Two storeys forming an irregular U-plan with changing roof heights indicating separate ranges. West elevation: Two ranges each of three timber-framed bays with close studding at first floor and braces from posts to studs with some renewal. Six first floor flush-framed sixteen-paned hung sash windows and three hung sash bay windows with narrow side lights. North elevation: Main entrance to right of centre half-glazed two-panelled door with gabled canopy and deep patterned bargebaords supported on shaped brackets. Two windows in segmental brick arches and three bay windows with four or five transomed casements. Five first floor casement windows. Interior: Carved ceiling beams and joists with folded leaf decoration, late C15 relaid; roofs not seen. The inn was said in 1622 to be very commodious for royal servants and other travellers, the inn keeper hired out pasture to drovers bringing cattle from East Anglia. V.C.H., Vol. VI, p202 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p334
Listing NGR: TL4847047274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52912
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 202
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 334
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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