Lion Ballroom is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1954. A Victorian Public hall. 2 related planning applications.
Lion Ballroom
- WRENN ID
- carved-truss-tide
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1954
- Type
- Public hall
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 January 2023 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards
SO 4959 808-1/1/10006
LEOMINSTER BROAD STREET (West side) Lion Ballroom
(Formerly listed as Lion Ballroom and Youth Enquiry Service)
24.07.1954
GV II*
Public hall, formerly assembly room and ballroom, with office below. c1830. Red brick with slate roof.
EXTERIOR: two storeys; five-window range of tall two-light wooden mullion and transom casements under brick segmental arches. Ground floor has arcade, formerly open, now with C20 glazing and doors, of round arches with impost bands. Wide storey band above.
INTERIOR: grand first-floor hall, in Neo-Classical style with fine richly detailed plasterwork, is articulated with Corinthian pilasters to sides and columns to ends supporting full entablature all round. Entrance wall has pair of panelled double doors and far end wall has a platform recess behind the columns decorated with blind arches. To one side the window architraves have elaborate consoles supporting cornices and these are mirrored by blank architraves on the opposite wall with a pair of simple fireplaces below two of them. Above the entablature tall coving frames a central panel decorated with fine acanthus leaf 'roses' and smaller fleurons.
Listing NGR: SO4957859168
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