Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1435
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/09/1951
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Red Lion P.H.
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
St. Asaph
Town
Locality
Easting
303752
Northing
374333
Street Side
Location
Set back between the rear of the Midland Bank and Felton House on right; narrow open courtyard to the front.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Probably late C16/early C17 in origin with later alterations.
Exterior
2-storey, 4-window roughcast front with plinth, 1st floor cill-band and brick eaves band. Renewed slate roof, brick gable parapet, probably renewed, to right end with quarter round kneeler; rendered chimney stacks. Irregularly spaced windows, 2 attic dormers with hipped roofs and small pane casements. 12-pane windows to 1st floor, fixed to left, sash to right both nearly flush frames, earlier small 2-light window further to right. 'The Red Lion' lettering over porch offset to left, imitation crenellated parapet with large red lion over rounded edges and arched entrance with modern door. Ground floor has small pane sash to right of porch with glazing bars removed to the lower sash. To right a former doorway with cambered head has been blocked and a small-pane fixed window inserted. 1 bay cross range forward to left with similar detail.
Right gable-end retains a massive chimney breast with wrapround bandcourse, also to left end. Modern extension to right and lower rendered cross range.
Interior
Interior retains some stop-chamfered beams and boarded doors to bars. 1st floor is said to have been used as a theatre in the late C18/early C19 - a programme is retained dated 1806.
Reason for designation
Group value with listed items on High Street.
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