Red Lion Inn and Red Lion Cottage
RED LION INN AND RED LION COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310718
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Red Lion Inn and Red Lion Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RED LION INN AND RED LION COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02431/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310718
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Red Lion Inn and Red Lion Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED LION INN AND RED LION COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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:
- RED LION INN AND RED LION COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cotherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 01202 19645
Details
COTHERSTONE MAIN STREET NZ 0119 (West side)
30/59 Red Lion Inn 12/1/67 Red Lion Cottage (Formerly listed as GV Red Lion Inn) II Public House with cottage to left. Dated 1738, on door lintel of public house, with later alterations. Squared rubble; cottage rendered. Concrete-tiled roof with grey brick chimney stacks, Possibly a linear-plan farmstead with cross- passage and byre to right, now a continuous 2-storey, 6-bay front. Ground-floor right bay of cottage pertains to Public House.
4-bay Public House with raised-and-chamfered quoins. Replaced door, in third bay, in slightly-projecting, tooled surround with lintel inscribed : TH 1738. 2 replaced 2-pane sashes in architraves to left; early C20 3-light sash window, horse-tethering ring and blocked doorway to right. Blank bay above doorway flanked by replaced 2-pane sashes, in architraves to left and in projecting surrounds with extended sills to right.
Cottage, of 2 wide bays, with raised-and-chamfered quoins. Late C20 bay window to left of 2 gabled porches. 2 replaced casements above in architraves.
Steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves. Rebuilt end stacks and 3 ridge stacks.
Rear wing to right, late C20 rear additions and gabled porches of cottage section are not of special interest. Cottage included for group value.
Listing NGR: NZ0120219645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111222
- 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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