The Golden Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. A Victorian Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Golden Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- deep-chamber-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Golden Lion Public House, 25, King Street, St James's Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1Y 6QY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 293 802
- Coordinates
- 51.50628, -0.13746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Golden Lion Public House is a public house built between 1897 and 1898. It features a stone-faced exterior and a slate roof, showcasing an ornate and mannerist late Victorian design. The building stands five storeys tall with a dormered mansard roof and has a single bay front. The ground floor includes an original three-light segmental bowed bar window, with a doorway recessed to the right, framed by granite columns and an entablature topped with a heavy stucco balustrade. The first floor has a banded segmental arched window with mullioned lights. A canted bay window extends through the second and third floors, with a semi-circular arched centre light on the third floor. Pilasters flank the elevation, and there is a prominent cornice above the third floor featuring lions flanking scrolls beneath an egg and dart frieze. The open pedimental stone dormer is adorned with obelisks in front of a balustraded parapet.
Local climate
The Golden Lion Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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