Building record 3619/0/32 - Former Monk and Minstrel Public House, Isham

This building is of 18th-century origin and was adopted by 1762 as The Red Lion, a public house which remained as such under different names until it closed in 2015

{1} The Red Lion is mentioned in 18th-century documents, particularly as the place where the old baronial court met on a number of occasions as early as 1762. It was the meeting place for the foundation of a Friendly Society in 1779.

The core of the building is a former 18th-century single-cell building which has been successively extended to form a pub. The front of the former pub is of roughly coursed Northamptonshire Sand with Ironstone, the first floor being rendered. Two mullioned windows, part stone and part modern coad-type stone, lie either side of a redundant entrance. At the first floor are three 20th-century metal-framed windows. Brick chimneys protrude at the centre of the end gables above a roof which is of Welsh slate.

<1> Soden, I and Prentice, J., 2017, A Level 2 building record of the former Monk and Minstrel Public House, Isham, Northamptonshire 2017 (Report). SNN110829.

<2> Crank, N. (Editor), 2018, South Midlands Archaeology (48), p. 59 (Journal). SNN111393.

Record last edited

Mar 6 2019 2:47PM