Red Lion Hotel
RED LION HOTEL, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208486
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Red Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- RED LION HOTEL, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208486
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Red Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED LION HOTEL, MARKET 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:
- RED LION HOTEL, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crewkerne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44095 09716
Details
CREWKERNE
ST4409 MARKET STREET 876-1/7/129 (West side) 06/09/74 Red Lion Hotel
GV II
Former hotel, now unoccupied. Facade is early and late C19; earlier origins. MATERIALS: stucco, with painted plinth, rusticated quoins and surround to the main window; slate roof with brick stacks to gable ends and a tall one to centre of rear block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 6-window range. The right half was symmetrical 3-window range with a carriage entrance to the left; the far left range is higher, with a crested roof, and may have been an adjoining house incorporated to the main block. Three 2-storey, slightly canted bays of paired 1/1-pane sashes with margin panes: 2 to right flank a Dutch-gabled entrance bay with a ball finial and a painted stone red lion on a C20 porch; above this is a round-arch 2/2-pane sash in a painted, rusticated architrave; in the gable are raised painted letters: THE RED LION HOTEL. Between the main block and the far left, taller range, is a carriage entrance with reeded pilasters, the top obscured by a C20 sign, filled in with wooden panelling which has a door to its left and many panes to the upper half. Above this, and to the right of the main, round-arched window, are 1/1-pane sashes with margin panes. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: in 1751 The Red Lion was among the 4 leading inns in Crewkerne.
Listing NGR: ST4409209714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390406
- 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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