Litchborough: The Old Red Lion
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Litchborough: The Old Red Lion
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 28 Feb 2015
This is a Grade II Listed Building and the English Heritage website speculates that it was once a farmhouse. The full description reads:- "Public House, probably former farmhouse. Late C17, altered C19. Coursed squared ironstone slate roofs, brick lateral and ridge stacks, the latter on stone base. L-plan with lobby entry. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. 4-panel part-glazed door to right of centre with wood lintel and straight hood on brackets. 3-light casement windows to ground and 1st floor left of centre with wood lintels. Projecting wing to right has similar window to ground floor gable and, 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window to 1st floor above, with hood mould and 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window to attic in gable. Quoins and chamfered plinth. Large blocked window to 1st floor of left gable end with long hood mould. Interior: stop-chamfered spine beams. Back-to-back open fireplaces with cambered stop-chamfered bressumers. Old stuff partition. Stone-flagged floors." (A bressummer is a load bearing beam in a timber framed building.)
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Image Location
Latitude
52.183332
Longitude
-1.076318