The Red Lion
THE RED LION, 8, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199618
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED LION, 8, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199618
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED LION, 8, 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, 8, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Debenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17347 63335
Details
DEBENHAM HIGH STREET (west side) TM 16 SE 6/95 No.8 (The Red Lion) 9.12.55 (formerly listed as Red Lion Hotel)
GV II
Originally brewhouse and anciliary range of the Gild of the Holy Trinity, associated with the adjacent guildhall (qv. Item 6/96). Now a public house. A complex building. Probably mid C15 south wing, extending to rear, part of which contained the brewhouse; immediately to the north is the remains of a C15 porch. Rest of front range is mid C16 rebuilding of earlier work, with further C16 work to rear of south wing. Re-fronted mid C19. Timber framed, the facade with brick casing, smooth-rendered to imitate ashlar. Plaintiled roof to front range, the south wing pantiled. 2 storeys. Corner block was jettied: there is the upper part of a fine corner post with traceried carving. An adjacent section of jetty faces south, under which is an embattled mid rail. 4-bay front: inset sash windows with glazing bars. Blank panel over main doorway. Mid C20 semi-glazed doors. Projecting wrought iron bracket for a sign, probably C19. Gable stack to right, internal stack in front section of south wing. One-bay return to south with similar sash windows. Interior. Brewhouse comprised 3 bays of south wing immediately behind the front bay, and was unfloored. Intact studding on upper floor shows evidence for a long range of north-facing windows with vertically-sliding shutters. Plain crown-post roof, substantially intact, originally hipped at the rear gable end. C17 inserted upper floor. Porch originally of 2 bays; the missing bay projected into the street. Upper portion of rear bay is visible, together with a fragment of the king-post roof. South side of porch has solid arched braces and was open to the adjoining room in the front of the south wing. C16 work to north has chamfered-joist ceiling to ground floor. Narrow end bay contains inserted stack: the ground floor fireplace has a good lintol with moulding and rope-pattern carving; mutilated embattled lintol to upper fireplace. Over the front range is a much altered plain crown-post roof. An upper room in the front range has a fine ceiling of very late C16: interlaced moulded ribs with pendants; Fleur-de-lys, Tudor rose and leaf motifs. 2 sides have a frieze of vine foliage, and across the centre is a moulded beam with the initials of George and Elizabeth Harrison. This ceiling is now in several rooms. Bloodhall Manor rentals of 1463 mention a bakehouse and 'le Gyeylynghows' (brewhouse) of the Gild. For structural drawings see Mr T. Easton, Bedfield Hall.
Listing NGR: TM1734763335
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281519
- 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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