Devonshire House And Lion House

Devonshire House and Lion House are woollen warehouses, later converted into offices, built in 1870 and altered in the 20th century. The design is by George Corson. The building is constructed of ashlar and red brick with stone detailing, under a slate roof, and is in the Gothic Revival style. It comprises four-storey, three-window outer bays and a three-storey, five-bay inner block. The outer bays have central panelled doors beneath a cusped stone hood, ornamented with a carved lion on the left and a griffin on the right, and rear yard entries with bracketed flat arches. The ground-floor windows have paired cusped lights in wooden frames set within square moulded stone recesses, with a band of polychrome tiles below and a continuous beaded cornice above. Upper-floor windows have paired flat-headed lights in the outer bays and pointed arches in the centre. The central block features full-height arched recesses with attached columns and a pierced parapet with gargoyles. The outer bays have a high bracketed eaves cornice and a parapet with flanking stone-capped chimneys. The interior remains uninspected. The building connects to Nos. 42-46 Park Place and shares a similar facade.