The Red Lion Hotel
THE RED LION HOTEL, 2, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383005
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED LION HOTEL, 2, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383005
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED LION HOTEL, 2, MARKET PLACE
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:
- THE RED LION HOTEL, 2, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wells
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55001 45748
Details
WELLS
ST5445 MARKET PLACE
662-1/7/142 (South side)
12/11/53 No.2
The Red Lion Hotel
GV II
The Red Lion Hotel also extends above Nos 1 and 3, High Street
(qv). Hotel, with shop to part of ground floor. C17 and early
C18. Brick with stone dressings, all colourwashed, Welsh slate
roof behind parapet, brick chimney stacks.
PLAN: front range, originally with a single large room to each
storey, is entered at the side from the throughway under No.1,
High Street; long narrow wing to rear right has a narrow
courtyard on the E side.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 2 bays. Doulting ashlar stone facade of
C20 to ground floor, with plinth, plain fascia and cornice,
framing two 16-pane recessed bow windows with a pair of glazed
doors to the right. Above, the shallow canted bay windows
extend full height to the parapet, containing plain sash
windows, the centre units being 4-pane with timber cornice
mouldings over each window, then a bold cornice under a
shallow parapet, all following the line of the bays below.
Side elevation to courtyard modified, rendered with C20 timber
casement windows, 3 storeys then 2 storeys with pantiled roof,
ending at south end of site with a garage building which
extends across whole site.
INTERIOR: the ground floor extensively modified in C20; the
front part is a shop, behind this the kitchen and a long
dining room, which is in 7 bays with rough transverse beams,
and a blocked window in the former end wall. At first floor
are 2 rooms, formerly one, with a plaster cornice having
egg-and-dart and vine-leaf enrichments, and room 2 has a good
C18 moulded architrave to the bay window. At first floor the
front range has no early detail.
The wing has a pantile roof, and the roof trusses, possibly of
the C17, have propped principals, but this not fully
inspected. A C17 door in 2 wide planks and a low canted head
gives access to the upper level of the stair.
Listing NGR: ST5500645737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483423
- 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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