Old Red Lion
OLD RED LION, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214394
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Red Lion
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RED LION, CASTLE STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-05-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/12335/21
- Rights:
- © Mr Alistair F Nisbet. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214394
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Red Lion
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD RED LION, CASTLE 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:
- OLD RED LION, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marsh Gibbon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64790 23111
Details
SP 6423 MARSH GIBBON CASTLE STREET
8/22 Old Red Lion (formerly listed as Red Lion Inn) 25.9.51
GV II
House, formerly inn. Dated 1BA 1684 on tablet over door. Coursed rubble stone, tiled roof, brick end stacks. Coped gables, ironstone kneelers. Deep wooden eaves cornice on scroll brackets, 3 between each window and 2 to ends, some with carved acanthus ornament. 2 storeys and attic. 5 bays of leaded cross windows, some C17, some modern replacements; flanking half-bays with transomed single lights. Central modern door with wooden panel above and segmental arched hood on acanthus scroll brackets. Painted inn sign with crown, red lion and wheel between upper windows to left of door. Outshot to rear has moulded ironstone kneeler. Staircase in gabled projection to rear. Room to upper right has panelling with C17-C18 moulded fireplace and panel above with flanking pilasters and cornice.
RCHM II p.192 MON.9.
Listing NGR: SP6479023111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399187
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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