Red Lion Hotel the Red Lion Hotel

RED LION HOTEL, BROWN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1242887
Date first listed:
28-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
Red Lion Hotel the Red Lion Hotel
Statutory Address:
RED LION HOTEL, BROWN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1242887
Date first listed:
28-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Oct-1972
List Entry Name:
Red Lion Hotel the Red Lion Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
RED LION HOTEL, BROWN STREET
Statutory Address 2:
THE RED LION HOTEL, 4, MILFORD STREET
Statutory Address 3:
THE RED LION HOTEL, 8 AND 10, MILFORD STREET

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
RED LION HOTEL, BROWN STREET
Statutory Address:
THE RED LION HOTEL, 4, MILFORD STREET
Statutory Address:
THE RED LION HOTEL, 8 AND 10, MILFORD STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Salisbury
National Grid Reference:
SU 14591 29900

Details

MILFORD STREET 1. 1594 (South Side) Nos 4, 8 & 10 (The Red Lion Hotel) SU 1429 NE 4/195 28.2.52. (No 4 only) II GV 2. An irregular group of buildings around a courtyard with 2 fronts to Milford Street (No 6 qv is a separate property) and a front to Brown Street qv. Main elevation of No 4: early C19 front to street. 3 storey. Stucco on raised plinth. Raised string over ground floor windows. Moulded cornice over 1st floor and 2nd floor windows. Plain parapet. Large arched yard entry to right hand of centre framed with panelled pilasters, and large scroll brackets supporting frieze under main cornice broken forward over. Archway 2 storeys high, with contemporary panelled double doors and iron gates of circular bars and curved heads, 1 sash vlindow, 4 panes wide, in architrave surround with side scroll on 2nd floor over archway, and with upper cornice broken forward over 2 windows to left hand and one to right hand of archway. The upper windows with Venetian shutters. The ground floor windows 3-light with bolection and frieze and cornice. All windows with architrave surround. This front encases earlier structure of C16 origin. In courtyard earlier ranges much altered on ground floor. West range 2 storeys early C19 recasing. 5 flush framed sashes on lst floor, altered windows and doors on ground floor. South range late C17/early Cl8 altered. Refronting of earlier structure with overhang. 2 storeys with half hipped old tile roof, painted brick to 1st floor with plain wood pilasters with slight volutes in profile dividing windows. Altered 2 light leaded casements and sashes, flush framed. Ground floor altered with leaded windows, projecting gabled section added in south west corner with timber frame applied. East range 2 storeys, remains of gallery now enclosed. 2 Cl9 gabled dormers. Interiors retain parts of timber frame with wall posts and braces, remains of overhang with post and bracket. Remains of partition walls on 1st floor. Nos 8-10 Milford Street, formerly separate, are now pant of hotel: early Cl9 front 2 storeys stucco ground floor, slate hung lst floor gabled. 2 sashes 1st floor, C19 glazing. Formerly 2 doors on ground floor now converted to windows. The Brown Street front: C18 altered, 2 storeys stuccoed. Gable end new pantile roof. Brick eaves. 3 windows lst irregugular C19 casements. 2 later 4 light casements on ground floor. Rusticated stucco surround to arched doorway with . + keystone.

Nos 4 to 16 (even) form a group with Nos 1 & 3 Catherine Street.

Listing NGR: SU1459129900

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
443927
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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