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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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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.