Sites and Monument Record: High Street, 148-154 (Red Lion) (SMR 429)
Description
Main part 3-storey 5-window, architraved windows with cornices at 1st floor, outer bays advanced slightly with first floor windows consoled and on east; painted ashlar; modern ground floor shop. Converted from Red Lion to warehouse 1896-8.
Frontage 76 ft long. Large hall or ballroom on 1st floor.
Object detail
A list of subsequent tenants is given in Love's article. The hotel licence was finally given up in 1898, though the public-house licence was retained. Part of the ground floor, at the W end, had been used as a post office from 1850 till 1862. In 1870 the furniture, furnishings, plated goods, silver, crystal, napery, horses, machines, wines and liquers from the Red Lion belonging to the late James Morris were sold off. In 1896 the operations of the hotel had been scaled down. At the W end of the building the old billiard room and the kitchen were converted into a warehouse. Hardware sales began from there by Messrs T & S Alexander.
Great success followed, and within 2 years they had taken over most of the building for Alexander's Stores.
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