The Old Red Lion

THE OLD RED LION, 84, WATERSIDE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1348441
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
The Old Red Lion
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RED LION, 84, WATERSIDE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1348441
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
The Old Red Lion
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD RED LION, 84, WATERSIDE

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:
THE OLD RED LION, 84, WATERSIDE

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Kings Langley
National Grid Reference:
TL 07464 02889

Details

KINGS LANGLEY WATERSIDE TL 0702 (East side) 13/165 No. 84 - (The Old Red Lion)

GV II

House, sometime an inn. Late C16, S bay C17, renovated as a house and SE wing built c.1980. Timber frame with square framing exposed in N gable and rear with brick nogging, red brick casing to W front and N lean-to, plastered SE wing, and steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys house on roadside facing W with rear outshut as cellar on E and 2 storeys gabled extension at SE. Large external C17 chimney at S gable with one flue behind the other and tiled roof to side oven. Single-flue C18 chimney up N gable. 4-bay structure with a narrow bay at middle with a long N bay with axial beam, and 2 S bays - the S one probably C17. Brick W front has 3 C19 windows to each floor and doorway to RH of lower middle window replaced by a similar 2-light flush casement window under segmental arch. 3-light casements to outer windows. Brick eaves band and wooden boxed eaves. Entrance moved to E side c.1980. Interior has exposed timbers with heavy curved braces to tie-beams and clasped-purlin queen-strut-and-collar roof with wind braces. (KLLHMS report 1978 in NMR).

Listing NGR: TL0746402889

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

Legacy System number:
157699
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report in Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report, (1978)

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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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