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Red Lion Hotel

A Grade II Listed Building in Duxford, Cambridgeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1039 / 52°6'13"N

Longitude: 0.1664 / 0°9'58"E

OS Eastings: 548470

OS Northings: 247274

OS Grid: TL484472

Mapcode National: GBR MB1.0WS

Mapcode Global: VHHKP.TDT0

Plus Code: 9F424538+HH

Entry Name: Red Lion Hotel

Listing Date: 22 November 1967

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1128090

English Heritage Legacy ID: 52912

ID on this website: 101128090

Location: South Cambridgeshire, CB22

County: Cambridgeshire

District: South Cambridgeshire

Civil Parish: Whittlesford

Built-Up Area: Station Road West, nr Duxford

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Duxford St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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Description


TL 4847 DUXFORD WHITTLESFORD BRIDGE 12/82 Red Lion Hotel 22.11.67 GV II Inn now a hotel. Early C16 with later C16, C17 and C18 alterations rebuilt and altered in mid to late C19. Timber-framed with plaster infill and rendered, painted brick, front elevation cased in knapped flint with gault brick quoins and dressings; plain tile roofs. Three rectangular planned ridge stacks, two side stacks and one stack with grouped shafts. Two storeys forming an irregular U-plan with changing roof heights indicating separate ranges. West elevation: Two ranges each of three timber-framed bays with close studding at first floor and braces from posts to studs with some renewal. Six first floor flush-framed sixteen-paned hung sash windows and three hung sash bay windows with narrow side lights. North elevation: Main entrance to right of centre half-glazed two-panelled door with gabled canopy and deep patterned bargebaords supported on shaped brackets. Two windows in segmental brick arches and three bay windows with four or five transomed casements. Five first floor casement windows. Interior: Carved ceiling beams and joists with folded leaf decoration, late C15 relaid; roofs not seen. The inn was said in 1622 to be very commodious for royal servants and other travellers, the inn keeper hired out pasture to drovers bringing cattle from East Anglia. V.C.H., Vol. VI, p202 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p334

Listing NGR: TL4847047274

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