The Black Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1986. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The Black Lion Public House

WRENN ID
inner-belfry-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maldon
Constituency
Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1986
Type
Public house
Address
The Black Lion Public House, Main Road, Althorne, CM3 6BT
OS grid reference
TQ 908 998
Coordinates
51.66517, 0.75819
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Black Lion Public House is a public house that dates from the 18th century and early 19th century, with extensions made in the 20th century. The building features a combination of timber framing and weatherboarding, as well as painted brick in Flemish bond, and is topped with handmade red clay tiles.

The timber-framed section consists of four bays facing southwest, is one storey high with attics, and includes one rear stack and a full-length lean-to extension at the back. There is also a small lean-to extension at the front. To the left, there is an early 19th-century brick building in an L-shape, which has an external stack at the left rear corner, is two storeys tall, and includes a 19th-century rear extension that is one storey high with attics, weatherboarded and featuring a hipped roof, along with a single-storey extension beyond it.

The building has 20th-century lean-to extensions on the left and in the left rear corner. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century tripartite sashes with 4-12-4 lights, a late 19th-century splayed bay with 8-16-8 lights, and a late 19th-century tripartite sash with 2-4-2 lights. The first floor has two early 19th-century tripartite sashes with 4-12-4 lights and one early 19th-century sash with 4 + 8 lights in a slated lean-to dormer. The entrance features a 20th-century door with side-lights in a 20th-century flat-roofed porch. The roof of the brick building is hipped, while the smaller weatherboarded building to the right has a gambrel roof.

Local climate

The Black Lion Public House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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