Description

MILFORD STREET 1. 1594 (South Side) Nos 4, 8 & 10 (The Red Lion Hotel) SU 1429 NE 4/195 28.2.52. (No 4 only) II GV 2. An irregular group of buildings around a courtyard with 2 fronts to Milford Street (No 6 qv is a separate property) and a front to Brown Street qv. Main elevation of No 4: early C19 front to street. 3 storey. Stucco on raised plinth. Raised string over ground floor windows. Moulded cornice over 1st floor and 2nd floor windows. Plain parapet. Large arched yard entry to right hand of centre framed with panelled pilasters, and large scroll brackets supporting frieze under main cornice broken forward over. Archway 2 storeys high, with contemporary panelled double doors and iron gates of circular bars and curved heads, 1 sash vlindow, 4 panes wide, in architrave surround with side scroll on 2nd floor over archway, and with upper cornice broken forward over 2 windows to left hand and one to right hand of archway. The upper windows with Venetian shutters. The ground floor windows 3-light with bolection and frieze and cornice. All windows with architrave surround. This front encases earlier structure of C16 origin. In courtyard earlier ranges much altered on ground floor. West range 2 storeys early C19 recasing. 5 flush framed sashes on lst floor, altered windows and doors on ground floor. South range late C17/early Cl8 altered. Refronting of earlier structure with overhang. 2 storeys with half hipped old tile roof, painted brick to 1st floor with plain wood pilasters with slight volutes in profile dividing windows. Altered 2 light leaded casements and sashes, flush framed. Ground floor altered with leaded windows, projecting gabled section added in south west corner with timber frame applied. East range 2 storeys, remains of gallery now enclosed. 2 Cl9 gabled dormers. Interiors retain parts of timber frame with wall posts and braces, remains of overhang with post and bracket. Remains of partition walls on 1st floor. Nos 8-10 Milford Street, formerly separate, are now pant of hotel: early Cl9 front 2 storeys stucco ground floor, slate hung lst floor gabled. 2 sashes 1st floor, C19 glazing. Formerly 2 doors on ground floor now converted to windows. The Brown Street front: C18 altered, 2 storeys stuccoed. Gable end new pantile roof. Brick eaves. 3 windows lst irregugular C19 casements. 2 later 4 light casements on ground floor. Rusticated stucco surround to arched doorway with . + keystone.

Nos 4 to 16 (even) form a group with Nos 1 & 3 Catherine Street.

Listing NGR: SU1459129900

External Links

• Wikidata Q26535611

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