The Golden Lion

The Golden Lion is a public house that was originally a house, dating from the early 18th century. It has been refronted and extended to the west in the early 19th century, with a bar front added around 1900. The building is rendered over brick, featuring a tiled roof and a tall stock brick chimneystack.

This corner building is two stories high with a steeply pitched roof that is hipped to the south. A chimneystack protrudes from the roof, and there are two 20th-century flat-roofed dormers on the southwest side. The exterior includes a wide wooden modillion cornice. Each side of the building has five windows, three of which are blank on the first floor. The windows are in their original openings and are mid or late 19th-century sashes, some with vertical glazing bars and some without.

On the corner, there is a well-crafted bar front from around 1900, featuring a moulded cornice with raised lettering displaying the name of the public house and a raised lion. This front also includes four bay windows, modified Venetian windows, and two half-glazed doors, all flanked by pilasters and set on a deep tiled plinth. The elevation facing Westcourt Road has an early 19th-century extension that is lower in height, also rendered and with a hipped roof. This extension has three sashes, primarily with vertical glazing bars, and a right-side doorcase with a wooden surround topped with a bracketed cornice.

The interior bars were refitted in the 1930s and subsequently, but the remainder of the building has not been inspected. Historically, the Golden Lion is similar to other early 18th-century structures in Prospect Row. A map of Brompton from 1786 shows a building in this area, and it is clearly marked as "The Golden Lion Inn" on the first edition of the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map from 1861.