The Red Lion England, UK

Listed Building Description

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NT 9928 WOOLER HIGH STREET (South side)

17/120 No. 1 (The Red Lion)

GV II

Inn. C17, C18 and C19. Top floor added late C19. Scored stucco with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 4 irregular bays with 2 lower wings projecting to rear; and later C19 3rd range, also projecting between the other two.

2-leaf, 4-panelled doors in 2nd and 4th bays. Raised surrounds. 2-light window in left bay. In 3rd bay a C19 2-storey square bay window: 3-light mullioned windows with 8-pane sashes; Castellated parapet, 12-pane sash windows elsewhere.

Gabled roof with flat coping and corniced ridge and end stacks.

Interior: In bar large fireplace with massive lintel and very rough bressumer, probably C17. Several other plain old fireplaces including one on 1st floor with date 1671 scratched on. One 2-panelled door on 1st floor. Parts of house inside and to rear have walls over 3 ft. thick.

Listing NGR: NT9912328021