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Picture source: Hania Franek
The Red Lion Hotel was situated on Bell Square. This grade-II* listed pub closed in 2015 and has now been converted to an Indian restaurant.
Source: T C
Grade II* Listed house and outbuilding, later a hotel and then from around 2015 when the hotel closed Lal Bagh Restaurant. Listed as 14th century partly rebuilt in the 17th, the building was built about 1450 with an adjacent 14th century cottage, that is one bay of a once larger building. It is believed that the side pillars of the fireplace, may have come from Weobley Castle. Parliamentary Papers of 1845 & 1849 show that ‘petty sessions are always held at the Red Lion Inn’. The former hotel staff accommodation adjoining on Bell Sq. appears to have been sold separately late 2013 as a pair of flats with potential to convert to a four bedroom house. Searching my directories I find, 1835 Samuel Bull (& excise office), 1842 William Martin (& excise office), 1844-1868 William Langslow (& farmer, maltster & innkeeper) and 1885-1913 George Leonard Morgan (& posting house).
Steve Turner (December 2021)
Listed building details:
House and outbuilding, now a hotel. C14, partly rebuilt C17, extended early C19, with some mid-C20 alterations. Timber-frame with rendered infill on a coursed rubble plinth, partly underbuilt in rubble, and extended in painted brick. L-plan, C14 cross-wing extending to north with a short C20 link block to the single-bay C14 outbuilding, the rebuilt hall range extends to the west and was extended in the C18. South front of two storeys with gabled cross-wing to right, underbuilt, with a 3-light casement to each floor. To left, three windows, two 2-light casements and a 3-light window. Ground floor has three 3- light casements with plank weatherings. Entrance to right of centre has a wooden doorcase with fluted pilasters and flat canopy. There are panelled reveals and a panelled door under an overlight. Framing of gable end is two square panels high with the two outer panels each having a pair of curved braces forming two- centred arches. The truss above has a steeply cambered tie-beam and two raking struts with a central vertical strut to the collar. The east side of the cross- wing is jettied with curved braces rising form pilasters, that to the dragon beam on the corner rising from a moulded capital. The first floor has two blocked windows with three trefoil headed lights and pierced trefoil spandrels. At the north end of the ground floor a blocked doorway has moulded jambs and an ogee-head. The outbuilding to the rear is one bay of a larger building, with two pairs of massive cruck blades.
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Picture source: Hania Franek
Date of photo: 1997	Photo © Jo Turner