Wigtown, 4 North Main Street, Red Lion Inn
Public House (15th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Wigtown, 4 North Main Street, Red Lion Inn
Classification Public House (15th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) The Square
Canmore ID 202056
Site Number NX45NW 66
NGR NX 43372 55411
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/202056
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Wigtown
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX45NW 66 43372 55411
NX45NW 113 43348 55387 Old Red Lion Inn
Photographic Survey (May 1962)
Photographic survey of buildings in Wigtown by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1962.
Publication Account (2014)
The now-demolished Red Lion Inn (formerly the town house of the Dunbars of Baldoon) had wallthicknesses implying a date of the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, as recorded during alteration in 1936 (see fig 14).
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Wigtown: Archaeology and Development’, (2014).
