Old Red Lion
OLD RED LION, ISLIP ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220039
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Red Lion
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RED LION, ISLIP ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220039
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Red Lion
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD RED LION, ISLIP ROAD
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, ISLIP ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bletchingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5026817580
Details
SP5017
5/30
26/11/51
BLETCHINGDON
ISLIP ROAD
(North side)
Old Red Lion
(Formerly listed as Red Lion Inn)
GV
II
Inn, now house. Late C16; remodelled and eaves raised in late C17; mid C18 rear
extension. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof, with concrete
tiles to rear; end stacks of stone finished in brick; C18 brick ridge stack to
rear. L-plan with rear right wing. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Timber lintels and
first-floor flat stone arches over C20 windows. Rear wing: of 2 storeys with
flat stone arches over early C19 six-panelled door with overlight and over C20
windows; C19 outshut to rear, with blocked arch to beer cellar. Interior: room
to right has plain C18 beam and mid C18 stone fireplace; room to left has late
C16 pyramid-stopped chamfered beam, stop-chamfered wall beams, and early C19
plank door. Mid C18 straight-cut panels to rear of right room; C18 six-panelled
doors and stone-flag floors to rear, and cased beam in rear rood. Formerly the
Red Lion Inn. Mid C18 extension and alterations probably followed purchase of
inn by John Cox in 1764.
(Deeds of house)
Listing NGR: SP5026817580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393864
- 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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