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The Red Lion was situated 51 Old North Road. This grade-II listed pub was present by 1788 and closed in 1960 when it became a garden centre. It is now in residential use.

Listed building details:

Inn. C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with applied timber decoration. Plain tiled roofs. Rebuilt ridge stack to right of centre and C20 end stack to right hand; rear stack and C20 stack. Two storeys, long jetty to the street, with lower range to rear forming L-plan. Double half-glazed doors in lobby entry position with three C19 canted hung sash bay windows; three C18 first floor iron casement windows with leaded lights. Interior; some exposed chamfered ceiling beams. The Red Lion was formerly a farmhouse and recorded as an inn c.1820; a long jettied range to the rear has recently been demolished. (RCHM).

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