The Red Lion Public House (Moone Hall) (EHER 29529)

The inn, formerly known as Moone Hall, is of two storeys, timber-framed and plastered with a tiled roof. It was built about 1500, with modern additions on the south and west sides.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Red Lion Inn (NAT). <1> Inn (NAT). <2> The Red Lion Public House. Long-jetty house, about 1500, now a public house. RCHM 3. Grade II*. <3> The Lion Inn, formerly Moone Hall, 50 yards south-west of the church, is of two storeys, timber-framed and plastered; the roofs are tiled. It was built about 1500; the additions on the south side and at the west end are modern. On the north front, and also at the back, between the modern additions, the upper storey projects; in front it has an original moulded bressummer supported by five moulded shafts or buttresses of wood; at the east end of the front is a gable with original cusped barge-boards. The early 17th century central chimney-stack has one octagonal shaft, and two attached diagonal shafts. The chimney-stack at the west end has a square shaft. Inside the building, on the ground floor, are some hollow-chamfered ceiling-beams and joists. The fireplace in the middle room has an original moulded and embattled lintel. Condition-Good. <4> 2003. Survey. Early double long jettied two-storey house heated by a high end stack. Tree ring dated to 1488-1515 from two cross-wing storey posts and a hall biding joist. One of three manors of Stambourne al owned in 1479 by Mackwilliams. It was later converted into a lobby entrance house and lost its service end. The chimney is built of large 'Tudor' bricks some with traces of ruddling on the 1st floor. The posts are mostly jowled, has tension bracing and edge halved and bridled scarf joints. There were stairs at the low end of the hall, the position of stair about the stack unclear. The later stairtower replaced an added lean-to. There is no communication at first floor between the rear bay of the crosswing and the parlour chamber. <5> See also: <6> <7>