Description

TA 1001-1101
9/74
1-11-66

CAISTOR
MARKET PLACE
(west side)
27 and 27A The Red Lion Hotel (formerly listed as The Red Lion Inn)

G.V.
II

Hotel and shop; C17, 1835, with C20 alterations. Rendered
brick, stucco dressings, slate partially hipped roof, 4 brick
ridge stacks. 3 storey, 5 bay front, moulded cornice, lead
downpipe with rainwater hopper. Off centre doorway covered by
porch suported on ¼ engaged Tuscan columns supporting a
frieze and entablature. Porch has side lights. To left a
further C20 glazed doorway, to right a modified C19 glazing bar
sash. Beyond a basket carriage arch with plain capitals and a
raised keystone. On the first floor are 5 glazing bar sashes.
On the second floor 5 further similar windows. All sashes have
narrow sills and shallow splayed stucco lintels. On the corner
to High Street is a glazed door to 27B and on the corner itself
is a 4 light late C19 shop window with timber mullions which
follows the curvature of the wall. On the upper floors are 2
similar windows all with shaped stucco keystones. On the High
Street is an irregular single bay of fenestration; on the ground
floor a plain window, on the first floor a small opening light
and on the 2nd floor a blank opening. Further down High Street
is an earlier but attached block, probably C17. This is of 3
irregular bays on the ground floor and 2 above and is of 2
storeys with a steeply pitched pantiled gabled roof with raised
gable and kneeler. A central axial stack, and first floor band
with plain eaves band. .Off centre C19 4 panelled door with to
right 2 glazing bar sashes. On the first floor 2 smaller similar
windows. To rear, on first floor, large late C18 room with some
contemporary fittings presumably former ballroom.

Listing NGR: TA1183801390

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26642034

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5