The Lion Hotel

The Lion Hotel is a former pair of houses that has been converted into a public house. It dates from the 17th century, with an 18th-century front and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of red brick and features a hipped plain tile roof, a central brick stack, and a large rubble stack at the right end. It has two storeys and a dentilled brick cornice. The façade includes two sets of two windows, all under segmental heads. On the left side, there are two glazing bar sashes, while the right side has two 3-light casements. The entrance is roughly central for both parts, with a four-panelled door on the left that has a flat canopy supported by two scroll brackets, and a similar four-panelled door on the right, where the upper two panels are glazed. The rear of the building features a timber-framed gable and several 19th and 20th-century extensions. Inside, the roof contains 17th-century trusses with queen struts and trenched purlins, along with 17th-century ovolo moulded and stopped beams in the central front room. Although a medieval open hall house once occupied this site, there are no remnants of it in the current structure.