Description

SP5017
5/30
26/11/51

BLETCHINGDON
ISLIP ROAD
(North side)
Old Red Lion
(Formerly listed as Red Lion Inn)

GV
II

Inn, now house. Late C16; remodelled and eaves raised in late C17; mid C18 rear
extension. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof, with concrete
tiles to rear; end stacks of stone finished in brick; C18 brick ridge stack to
rear. L-plan with rear right wing. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Timber lintels and
first-floor flat stone arches over C20 windows. Rear wing: of 2 storeys with
flat stone arches over early C19 six-panelled door with overlight and over C20
windows; C19 outshut to rear, with blocked arch to beer cellar. Interior: room
to right has plain C18 beam and mid C18 stone fireplace; room to left has late
C16 pyramid-stopped chamfered beam, stop-chamfered wall beams, and early C19
plank door. Mid C18 straight-cut panels to rear of right room; C18 six-panelled
doors and stone-flag floors to rear, and cased beam in rear rood. Formerly the
Red Lion Inn. Mid C18 extension and alterations probably followed purchase of
inn by John Cox in 1764.
(Deeds of house)

Listing NGR: SP5026817580

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514538

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover