Red Lion Hotel, With Front Boundary Railings Attached
RED LION HOTEL, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS ATTACHED, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177452
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Red Lion Hotel, With Front Boundary Railings Attached
- Statutory Address:
- RED LION HOTEL, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS ATTACHED, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177452
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Red Lion Hotel, With Front Boundary Railings Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED LION HOTEL, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS ATTACHED, MARKET PLACE
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, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS ATTACHED, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4911128557
Details
ST49NW SOMERTON CP MARKET PLACE (East side)
9/161 Red Lion Hotel, with front
boundary railings attached
(including premises adjoining Red
Lion
(P 0) formerly listed as a
separate item)
17.4.59
GV II*
Hotel. Mostly c1770, with modifications, but possibly retaining earlier fragments. Local lias stone cut and squared,
with Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 wide bays.
plinth, cornice, plain parapet, thin toothed ashlar quoins; centre bay has plain pilasters, string course to impost
level of central 3 centred triple keystoned arch, open pediment with arms of the Earls of Ilchester in tympanum; 4+12+4
pane composite sash windows to outer bays both levels; 8+12+8 pane sash windows bays 2 and 4, and Venetian window to
central bay upper: between bays 1 and 2, and 4 and 5, are C20 boarded doors with C20 stone surrounds, the left
pedimented, the right with heavy flat stone hood on brackets. Interior and rear buildings around courtyard radically
altered in later C20. Attached to front, small stone kerb to plinth height, with wrot iron railings with simple twist
spikes, enclosing small areas to each of the 4 outer bays, with returns to facade. Impressive facade with important
streetscape value. north end was formerly adapted to form post office, now reincorporated into hotel. (VCH, Volume III,
1974).
Listing NGR: ST4911128557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262983
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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