Description

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET
849-1/10/63 (South side)
No.56
Red Lion Inn

GV II

Public House. C16 or earlier, heightened and remodelled in
C19. Solid rendered walls. Slated roof. 2 old rendered
chimneys with tapered caps on rear wall. 2 rooms wide, 1 room
deep, originally with central through-passage. Rear storage
wing to right, now incorporated into C20 extension. 3-storeyed
front range (probably 2 storeys originally). Single storeyed
wing. 3 windows wide. Doorways in centre and at left-hand end
of ground storey; 2 sash windows of 3 lights each. Upper
storey windows also of 3 lights; that to right of second
storey has small-paned sashes; remainder small-paned wood
casements.
Interior: ground floor of front range converted to a single
bar. In rear wall of former left-hand room a stone
chimneypiece (probably C16) with roughly shaped lintel on
double rounded corbels. C17 ovolo-moulded beam over former
passage. Between 1st and 2nd floors a winding wood staircase
(probably early C18) with flat sinuous balusters and square
newel with beaded corners.

Listing NGR: SX7580969995

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496743

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)