The Red Lion Inn
THE RED LION INN, ROMAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237593
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED LION INN, ROMAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237593
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED LION INN, ROMAN 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:
- THE RED LION INN, ROMAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Margaretting
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 66536 01463
Details
The following building shall be added:
ROMAN ROAD TL 60 SE (West Side)
12/1003 The Red Lion Inn
II
House, now inn. Mid-late C17; refaced in late C18 brick; mid C19 lean-to to rear and extension to left. C17 timber frame encased in late C18 Flemish bond brick; gabled plain tile roofs; brick ridge and right end stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Mid C19 beaded 6-panelled door, with late C19 porch to front. Gauged brick flat arches over C19 horned tripartite sashes with glazing bars to ground floor, and over late C18 twelve-pane sashes on first floor. C17 cross wing to left, of similar materials, has gabled front with similar arch over similar tripartite sash, and first floor 2-light casement with glazing bars; reset C17 timber framing, reworked in C20, to gable . Mid/late C19 brick and tile wing added to left, and mid C19 lean-to to rear. Interior: stop-chamfered beams to left (with ogee stops) and right; exposed C17 timber framing to rear and, with arch braces, to left. First floor not inspected. Truncated tie beam and tiebeam with mortices for arch braces to cross wing on left. History: orginally built as a farmhouse, and listed in Manor records of 1694 as "Kettles". Purchased in 1719 by John Swan, and leased in 1729 by his widow to Edmund Garrett of Margaretting, innholder. Formerly known as the Butcher's Arms, it acquired its present name in the l840s.
Listing NGR: TL6653601463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428940
- 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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