Golden Lion Hotel

LOFTUS HIGH STREET NZ 7218 (south side), Loftus. 4/35 Golden Lion Hotel. G.V. II Hotel, mid/late C19. Dressed sandstone with white Pease brick to east gable end. Welsh slate roof with brick end stack at left and 2 stone stacks at rear. 3 storeys, 3-bay ground floor, 4-bay upper floors. Central 3-panel double doors in Tuscan porch surmounted by sculptured lion couchant on plinth. Canted stone quadripartite bay windows with sashes and cornice on ground floor. Upper-floor sash windows in architraves with sill bands, round-headed with keystones on 2nd floor. Heavily-moulded eaves cornice below shallow parapet. Raised quoins. Sign boards between first and 2nd floors. Hanging sign with ornamental iron bracket at left end of first floor. Roof hipped at right end. Single-bay right return. Contemporary rear wing in keeping. Mid C20 single-storey rear extensions are not of special interest. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ7222618149