Former Red Lion

Former Red Lion, Market Place, Caistor, LN7 6QE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1359833
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Former Red Lion
Statutory Address:
Former Red Lion, Market Place, Caistor, LN7 6QE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1359833
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Former Red Lion
Statutory Address 1:
Former Red Lion, Market Place, Caistor, LN7 6QE

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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:
Former Red Lion, Market Place, Caistor, LN7 6QE

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
West Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
Caistor
National Grid Reference:
TA1183801390

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 February 2025 to update the Name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TA 1001-1101
9/74

CAISTOR
MARKET PLACE (west side)
Former Red Lion

(Formerly listed as 27 and 27A The Red Lion Hotel, previously listed as The Red Lion Inn)

1-11-66

G.V.
II

Hotel and shop; C17, 1835, with C20 alterations. Rendered brick, stucco dressings, slate partially hipped roof, four brick ridge stacks. Three storey, five bay front, moulded cornice, lead downpipe with rainwater hopper. Off centre doorway covered by porch suported on quarter engaged Tuscan columns supporting a frieze and entablature. Porch has side lights. To left a further C20 glazed doorway, to right a modified C19 glazing bar sash. Beyond a basket carriage arch with plain capitals and a raised keystone. On the first floor are five glazing bar sashes. On the second floor five further similar windows. All sashes have narrow sills and shallow splayed stucco lintels. On the corner to High Street is a glazed door to former 27B and on the corner itself is a four light late C19 shop window with timber mullions which follows the curvature of the wall. On the upper floors are two similar windows all with shaped stucco keystones.

On the High Street is an irregular single bay of fenestration; on the ground floor a plain window, on the first floor a small opening light and on the second floor a blank opening. Further down High Street is an earlier but attached block, probably C17. This is of three irregular bays on the ground floor and two above and is of two storeys with a steeply pitched pantiled gabled roof with raised gable and kneeler. A central axial stack, and first floor band with plain eaves band. .Off centre C19 four panelled door with to right two glazing bar sashes. On the first floor two smaller similar windows. To rear, on first floor, large late C18 room with some contemporary fittings presumably former ballroom.

Listing NGR: TA1183801390

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
196624
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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