NHER 37724 (Building record) - 31 Red Lion Street (former Red Lion Inn)

June 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Early 18th century. Colourwashed brick, steeply-pitched pantile roof. Two storeys and cellar. Wood eaves cornice. Central casement with side lights, first floor, east side. Later entrance door and shop window. Splayed corner at south east with brick moulding. Parapetted south gable with brick tumbling and gable chimney stack. Two-storey gabled wing to west. Steep-pitched pantile roof with shaped rafter ends…"
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 16 June 2021.

31 Red Lion Street, formerly Red Lion Inn.
Small building with painted brick east front; ground floor 20th century shop front, part infilled with 19th/20th century brick, but first floor has two blocked windows and one open. South gable wall with tumbled parapet gable and stack. Southeast corner of building stopped and chamfered in moulded brick forming a pair to no 29 (NHER 13472) and an entrance to Red Lion Yard. (S1) description notes gabled wing to west and cellar, and dates building to early 18th century, yet no. 29, with identical detail, it dates as mid 18th century. In fact both appear to be late 17th. (S1) also notes 'no 31A' [now NHER 46002] as 18th century with moulded corbel stone and large chimney at junction with no 33. No 31 now gives the appearance of a small building; the north end may have been rebuilt, but it was clearly built as a pair to no 29 and one would have expected more grandeur if this was the inn.
E. Rose (NLA), 1 February 2003.