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Red Lion, Hawkshead
Red Lion
locality:-   Hawkshead
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD35219820
1Km square:-   SD3598
10Km square:-   SD39
references:-   Otley 1823

photograph
BOR57.jpg  Innsign.
(taken 15.2.2008)  
photograph
BOR56.jpg (taken 15.2.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 2) 
placename:-  Red Lion Hotel
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  post chaise
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT01P101, button  goto source
Page 101:-  "Passing through the little market town of Hawkshead, where a post chaise is kept at the Red Lion, ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  innsign
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Main Street, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0592.jpg
The inn is now the Red Lion, and has been for a long while, but the innsign here looks like Bunches of Grapes. 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS252
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Red Lion Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"RED LION HOTEL / / MAIN STREET / HAWKSHEAD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76840 / SD3521498200"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public house. Possibly C17 but refaced C19. Stucco with slate roof. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, with one-storey extension to left return. Windows are sashed with glazing bars and margin lights, label moulds. Gabled dormers, that to 3rd bay has top-hung casement. Entrance has label mould and studded, panelled door. 2 corbels to eaves, one in form of a man with pig, the other a man with bagpipes. Ornamental iron bracket supports lantern and inn sign. Gable-end stacks. Left return has ornamental bargeboards and 2 sashed windows with glazing bars and horns. Extension has sashed window with glazing bars and horns; gable end stack. Rear wing has C20 windows; 2 gables to left, 1st bay has sashed windows with glazing bars, ground floor to 2nd bay has small-paned fixed glazing with opening lights."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ANNEXE TO RED LION HOTEL / 1 / RED LION YARD / HAWKSHEAD / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76856 / SD3522798195"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"House. Probably C18. Roughcast with slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Dripcourse to 2nd bay. Ground floor has small-paned casement to 2nd bay. 1st floor has small-paned fixed glazing to stair window to 1st bay and small-paned casement to 2nd bay. Central part-glazed 6-panel door. Cross-axial stack with rounded shafts to right, adjoining wing of solicitor's office (q.v.)."

photograph
BOR59.jpg  Man carrying a pig to market.
(taken 15.2.2008)  
photograph
BOR58.jpg  Man playing a bagpipe (NOT a whistle as a notice says).
(taken 15.2.2008)  
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