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Picture source: Bob Medley

The Red Lion was situated on The Green. This grade-II listed building was built in the late sixteenth-century as a private dwelling, and in the early nineteenth-century it became a pub. The pub shut in 1928, and the widow of the last landlord occupied the building until the 1960s. In 1972 there was an unsuccessful attempt by the Birkenhead Brewery Company to gain planning permission for a modern 'pub'. Restoration work was carried out during 1974 involving the whole building being systematically dismantled and then rebuilt.

Listed building details:

Two houses, later public house, now single dwelling. Dated 1631 with C19 alterations; restored and converted for domestic use c1974. Timber-framed on stone plinth, with plastered panels and timber bargeboarded gables; slate roof with rebuilt brick stacks. Exterior: 2-storey, 4-bay front, left end bay jettied and gabled. Exposed framing consists of 18 panels of small framing with small angle braces to gable and passing braces to main facade. Right of centre door is studded and divided into vertical panels by beads. Renewed timber mullioned windows, some flush and some slightly projecting, all with rectangular leaded glazing. Tablet under the eaves has the inscription `I.B. M.B.' and date. INTERIOR: exposed beams and ceiling joists but substantially adapted to modern use during the 1974 rehabitation.

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Picture source: Bob Medley