Red Lion Public House

RED LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 48, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1226437
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Red Lion Public House
Statutory Address:
RED LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 48, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1226437
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Red Lion Public House
Statutory Address 1:
RED LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 48, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RED LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 48, PARLIAMENT STREET SW1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 30188 79791

Details

TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT STREET, SW1 92/21 (east side) 14.6.83 No 48 (Red Lion Public House) G.V. II Public house on corner with Derby Gate. c1890. Portland stone and granite ground floor, slate roof. Eclectic Flemish Baroque style. 4 storeys and gabled attic. Narrow single bay front to Parliament Street and 5-window return to Derby Gate. Ground floor retains unaltered public house frontage with basket handle arched bar windows and corner entrance under deep entablature-fascia; cut and frosted glass. Mullioned-transomed windows and pilaster mullioned 2-storey oriels above public house front to Parliament Street and to Derby Gate. String courses and shaped gable with sculpture surmounting composition. Pub interior retains most of original fittings with screens and shaped pediment shelving etc.

Listing NGR: TQ3019179792

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
423726
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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