The Red Lion
THE RED LION, 1, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153963
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED LION, 1, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153963
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED LION, 1, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wooler
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 99123 28021
Details
NT 9928 WOOLER HIGH STREET (South side)
17/120 No. 1 (The Red Lion)
GV II
Inn. C17, C18 and C19. Top floor added late C19. Scored stucco with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 4 irregular bays with 2 lower wings projecting to rear; and later C19 3rd range, also projecting between the other two.
2-leaf, 4-panelled doors in 2nd and 4th bays. Raised surrounds. 2-light window in left bay. In 3rd bay a C19 2-storey square bay window: 3-light mullioned windows with 8-pane sashes; Castellated parapet, 12-pane sash windows elsewhere.
Gabled roof with flat coping and corniced ridge and end stacks.
Interior: In bar large fireplace with massive lintel and very rough bressumer, probably C17. Several other plain old fireplaces including one on 1st floor with date 1671 scratched on. One 2-panelled door on 1st floor. Parts of house inside and to rear have walls over 3 ft. thick.
Listing NGR: NT9912328021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237695
- 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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