Red Lion Hotel

RED LION HOTEL, 2, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1305171
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:
Red Lion Hotel
Statutory Address:
RED LION HOTEL, 2, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1305171
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:
Red Lion Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
RED LION HOTEL, 2, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address 2:
RED LION HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RED LION HOTEL, 2, BROAD STREET
Statutory Address:
RED LION HOTEL, MARKET SQUARE

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:
Newent
National Grid Reference:
SO 72238 25839

Details

SO 7225-7325 NEWENT BROAD STREET (south side)

13/81 No 2 (Red Lion Hotel)

2.10.54

GV II

Former Inn, now Public House; early and mid C19; Flemish bond brickwork, slate roof to Broad Street, large concrete tiles to Market Square. Three windows wide to Broad Street, 4 bays to Market Square, 2 storeys. Front to Broad Street: brick plinth, 3 paired single-pane sash windows, under flat, rubbed brick arches. Between second and third windows from left 6-panel door up 3 steps; upper panels fielded, bottom flush; panelled reveals, moulded surround, flat hood on shaped brackets. First floor windows as below, iron arm with 2 stays for inn sign. Post and end of supporting beam from former jettied timber-framed building, against No 4. Coved plaster cornice, hipped roof. Tall brick chimney against No 4 (q.v.). Left return to Market Square; on right projecting brick chimney, with low, triangular, brick-topped infill on right. To left, 2-light casement window, flat rendered lintel; double doors, top-half glazed, moulded surround, flat hood with shaped brackets. On left cambered brick-on-end arch to cellar hatch. Beyond large, canted bay, late C20 windows on 2 faces, third brick; hipped slate roof. Slight projection beyond, 3 brick piers, stone Doric caps, deep, rendered lintel over. First bay wide, double boarded doors, boarding set diagonally, fretwork grills in upper half: second bay narrow, brick below, rendered panel above. First floor 16-pane sash, cambered head over door, ditto over right half of bay: coved plaster cornice up to projection. Three semi-circular headed sash windows over Doric piers: continuous sill on top of lintel, shaped consoles with swags and skulls below springing to each arch. Arches and alternate bricks in reveals painted. Hipped roof, higher for last extension. Two brick chimneys behind ridge towards right of centre, third on ridge at junction to 3 window section.

Listing NGR: SO7223825839

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
125613
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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