Description

CLOVELLY CLOVELLY
SS 3124
11/14 The Red Lion Hotel

29.2.58

GV II

Inn, adjacent to the Pier (q.v). Raised plaster plaque: "C.H. 1928", marking an
extensive rebuilding by architects H Orphoot and Whiting of Bideford for Christine
Hamlyn, core probably C18, though the site is much earlier. Rubble plinth, brick on
the first and the second floor all colourwashed; slate roof with a clay ridge;
projecting band at first floor level; 5 stacks with restored brick shafts.
Plan : asymmetrical, roughly U-shaped on plan, main rectangular range facing to the
east with throughway to 2 wings projecting at right-angles to the rear.
Exterior: main range of 6 bays on the ground floor 3 cambered head window openings
with tripartite 3:12:3 pane casements, these arches formerly gave onto the estate
coal cellars; on the first floor 6-pane cambered-head sash windows, similar sash
windows to second floor in gabled half-dormers. Semi-circular headed throughway to
the left of ground floor, also on the left of the ground floor paired plank doors
with a pent-roofed hood. Doorway on the right side under the throughway with
entrance to front of building. Wings to rear with casements with glazing bars and
sash windows. Left wing (seen from the rear) with them mostly renewed, gable end of
this wing with exposed exterior wooden staircase, weatherboarded gable end with
paired plank doors. The other wing much rebuilt, third floor jettied on inner face
in vernacular style, flight of stone steps up to first floor level. Seaward end of
the main range has 2 gables, 2 projecting canted bays on the first floor, hipped
roofs, ornamental wavey bargeboards, lattice balustrading to balcony at first floor
level. Large wood signboard with lion in relief on post, by B Fletcher local
woodcarver c. 1928. Interior: not inspected.
Source: Ruthven A.,Clovelly and Its Story, 1968.

Listing NGR: SS3183424906

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26617886

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)