Description

HALTWHISTL MAIN STREET
NY 7064
(North side)
20/10 Red Lion Hotel
10/6/52
GV II*

Hotel. Probably mid C15 pele tower with early-mid C18 wing; entire street
front refaced and refenestrated in late C18-early C19. Rubble (rendered and
painted on front), plain-tiled roofs and stone chimney stacks. Rectangular-
plan pele tower with wing on left. Slightly-projecting 3-storey pele tower:
one-bay street front and 2 bay returns; low plinth; sashes and casements in
architraves; loop at left (lighting mural stair) in later cable-moulded
surround; incised band beneath top storey; projecting panelled flat-coped
parapet on rendered corbels; pitched roof with blocked window; C18 corniced
lateral stack at right. 3-storey, 2-bay wing: low plinth; 4-panel door at
right in architrave with frieze and cornice; door under distyle Tuscan porch;
2-light windows in architraves with replaced sashes and casements (central
mullion removed from ground-floor windows); 3 round plaques on top storey
(fire-insurance mark on central plaque); panelled flat-coped parapet above
string; pitched roof with rebuilt stone left end stack. 2 cylindrical tapering
water-spouts on right return of pele-tower parapet. Exposed original corbels
and parapet on rear of pele tower. Interior: pele tower has 2-flight mural
stone stair in left return wall; stone fireplace on second floor with moulded
2-order segmental arch on corbels supporting massive lintel. Wing has 4-flight
dogleg staircase with ramped handrail and st$ck balusters; 2 pairs of upper
crucks halved and crossed at apex. Altered 2-storey wing on right of pele
tower and C19 rear additions are not of special interest. Though altered,
the pele tower is important as a rare urban survival.

Listing NGR: NY7077164109

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546897

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)