The following text is from the original listed building designation:

1. 5282 HIGH STREET (North Side) SITTINGBOURNE No 58 TQ 9063 NE 2/6 10.9.51 II GV 2, This building, with Nos 60 and 62 adjoining, formed the front of the Red Lion Inn which was originally the principal hotel of Sittingbourne until it was superceded by the Rose Inn. The front dates from the C18. 2 storeys and attics red brick. Tiled roof and 1 C19 gabled dormer. Cornice and panelled parapet on which there is a plaster figure of a couchant lion. 4 sashes with glazing bars missing. Modern public house front on the ground floor and carriage arch through the building to the west of it. Behind the street front and at right angles to it is a long low timber-framed building. The ground floor has been rebuilt in painted brick. The lst floor is plastered and overhangs on a bressumer. Tiled roof. Sash windows, some with glazing bars intact, including a curved bay of 3 round-headed windows at the south end of the ground floor with cornice over. 2 storeys, 6 windows facing west. There has been an inn on this site for 500 years. In 1415, Henry V was entertained here on his return from Agincourt. Other famous customers include Cardinal Wolsey and Henry V.
Nos 30 to 62 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9071763656

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The site of a large inn with medieval origins. The front range, rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century, extends for 12 bays. The presence of a beam within this suggests that the range was not completely rebuilt at this date but rather that a 16th century building was drastically renovated. Behind the front range are three parallel wings extending away from the road. Both the centre and eastern wings are timber-framed and jettied to their west sides. The east range was built in two stages, the lower parts being of different widths and heights. There are two crown posts within the ranges and they are likely to date between c.1475 and c.1510. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF091000 THE RED LION, 58, HIGH STREET, SWALE

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments in England, 1995, Historic Building Report: The Red Lion Public House, 58 High Street, Sittingbourne, Kent (Unpublished document). SWX6966.