The 'Golden Lion'

The 'Golden Lion' is an 18th-century inn located on Stanhope St. John's Chapel. It features coursed sandstone rubble with a chamfered plinth and ashlar dressings, while the rebated quoins suggest that render has been removed. The left return has incised stucco, and the left wing includes a bay made of limestone. There are painted rendered additions, including a porch and a left extension to the main building. The roof is stone-flagged with stone ridges, and some chimneys are rendered.

The main building is two stories high with three bays, and there is a one-story, one-bay left addition. The left wing, which is set back, has two stories and consists of six bays built in two phases. The main building features a renewed door and overlight in the projecting center part of the central porch, which has a cavetto-moulded drip string and cornice. Flanking the porch are 32-pane horizontal fixed lights, and above is a Venetian window flanked by 12-pane sashes, all with renewed glazing in raised stone surrounds, keyed over the Venetian window. There is a blocked opening to the right of the porch with a flat stone lintel. The left extension, styled like the porch, has a four-light round window in a raised surround and flat coping. The hipped roof has cyma-moulded kneelers and end-ridge chimneys.

The left wing consists of two builds; the first build, which adjoins a house, has three bays with a boarded door in the second bay and three windows. The second, higher build features an elliptical carriage arch on large block jambs, with a boarded door in a plain stone surround situated between the two right bays. All ground floor windows are plain sashes, while the upper floor has 12-pane sashes. There are two small square ridge chimneys, and doors have been inserted in a recessed addition under the carriage arch. The wing has three rear side stone stairs leading to first-floor entrances.