Golden Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1950. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Golden Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- keen-beam-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1950
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Golden Lion Public House, 30, Market Place, Barnard Castle, DL12 8NB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 050 164
- Coordinates
- 54.5434, -1.92404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Golden Lion Public House is an inn dated 1679, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features painted rendered stone with a plinth and painted mock timber framing, topped with a synthetic tile roof that imitates stone slates, along with rendered and brick chimneys. The building has three low storeys and a four-window range. A plain stone surround frames a four-panel door with a plain overlight in the third bay, alongside six-pane sash windows: two to the left of the door, three on the first floor, and one on the second floor in the third bay, all with surrounds painted to mimic timber framing. To the right, there is a full-height square bay window with six-pane sashes and plain sashes on the return. All ground floor windows are set low in the wall. An inn sign hangs from a large wrought-iron bracket at the top of the second bay. The roof features a rendered left chimney raised above the adjacent building and a central brick chimney. Inside, there are steps that lead down into the building, and the ground floor has been altered. The building's position on the castle ditch indicates that encroachment began in the early 17th century.
Local climate
Golden Lion Public House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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