Red Lion Whittlesford Bridge (WMPalmer pre 1924)

Red Lion, Whittlesford Bridge

History of the Red Lion

Listed Building

Inn now a hotel. Early C16 with later C16, C17 and C18 alterations rebuilt and altered in mid to late C19. Timber-framed with plaster infill and rendered, painted brick, front elevation cased in knapped flint with gault brick quoins and dressings; plain tile roofs.

See A History of the Hospice and Priory Chapel in the Hamlet of Whittlesford -Bridge by T F Teversham.

 

 

W M Palmer (1924) argues that there was no connection between the medieval hospital next door and the inn.

In 1619 King James stayed at the Red Lion and there is still a “King’s Room’. In 1631 the King granted the landlord a special licence to sell wine.

1763 landlord Hammond Turtle put his initials with date under the red lion on the sign board.

1834 Thomas Holiday, landlord. At that time a black oak table, allegedly from the hospital was in the dining room, and the font caught drips from the pump in the courtyard.