Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


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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