Golden Lion Hotel

TF 64 SE HUNSTANTON THE GREEN New Hunstanton 1/32 Golden Lion Hotel.

G.V. II

Hotel, formerly the Royal Hotel. C.1850, preceding the development of New Hunstanton by the Le Stranges of Hunstanton Hall. Probably by William Butter- field, the friend of Henry Le Strange and architect for New Hunstanton from 1862. Squared carstone laid in random courses,stone dressings tiled roof. "L" plan, 2 storeys with attics. High Victorian Tudor Gothic. To Green a 2 gable facade with cross wing,details and forms picturesquely varied. East gable with projecting stone roofed ground floor bow with stone mullioned and transomed cross window. First floor one 4-light cross window with Gothic arched heads, attic with one 2-light casement. 2 storey wing to east is a C20 addition. Cross wing with off axis gabled porch with pointed arch entrance. Ground floor to east has one arched single light mullioned casement and one triple light arched headed cross window, first floor has one single light and 2 3-light straight headed cross windows, attic has 2 gabled dormers. West gable blank except for single ground floor casement, and externally expressed chimney breast and stack. Long returned north wing 2 storeys with attics with attached C20 flat roofed ground floor extension.

Listing NGR: TF6730341008