6-7 Red Lion Square

These two buildings, currently occupied by Dawsons Jewellers and The Central Café, were originally one 15th century building, thought to have been used as a Guildhall, or possibly the great woolhouse of the Browne family.

In the 18th century no. 6 was given a grand east elevation and bow windows, topped with the statue of Mercury you see today. The statue disappeared in the mid-19th century and was replaced by an eagle, but this in turn was removed during the First World War as a result of anti-German feeling

No. 7, also originally part of the larger medieval building, was faced with a pseudo Tudor timber framed front in the 1930s.

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