Description

SO 3288
12/29

BISHOP'S CASTLE C.P.
CHURCH STREET (west side)

Nos. 53-57 (odd) and
Rudge House

GV
II

3 houses, latterly inn and shops, now 3 houses and shop. C17 with early-
to mid-C19 refacing. Timber framed with painted brick nogging on rubblestone
plinth, painted brick refacing to front, and plain tile roof. Probably
5 framed bays. 2 storeys. Brick ridge stack off-centre to left.
Framing: square panels with long tension braces. 5 windows to first
floor; glazing bar sashes. 3 mid-C19 former shop windows to left
with thin wooden mullions and transoms, that to right with pilastered
surround; mid-C19 half-glazed door between first and second windows
from left with margin lights, 2 lower panels, and doorcase with
pilaster strips, frieze and cornice-hood; door between second and third
windows from left with 6 flush panels (top 4 glazed), and pilastered
surround; late-C19 shop front to right with 2 plate glass windows
flanking recessed half-glazed door off-centre to left. Late-C19 and C20
additions to rear at right. Interior: chamfered and stopped beams.
This was formerly the Red Lion Inn.

Listing NGR: SO3234188744

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306248

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