The Golden Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
The Golden Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-bronze-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Golden Lion Public House, High Street, London Colney, AL2 1RG
- OS grid reference
- TL 179 039
- Coordinates
- 51.7219, -0.29398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Golden Lion Public House is a public house dating from the 17th century, with early and late 19th-century features. It has a timber frame and painted brick exterior, topped with a machine tile hipped roof that includes a rebuilt central stack. The building is two storeys tall and features dentilled brick eaves along the original square block. The front has two flush sash windows with 8/8 panes, while the ground floor includes a late 19th-century projection with canted bay windows at each end and two windows in between. There is a continuous wooden fascia band with small triangular pediments. On the south elevation, there is one sash window. Inside, the pub displays two and a half bays of heavy two-storey framing, with chamfered floor beams and plates exposed on the upper floor. Attached to the southwest corner is a hall built around 1900, which has a gable end facing the road and is a single storey.
Local climate
The Golden Lion Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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