The Lion Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Public house.

The Lion Hotel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dover
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1987
Type
Public house
Address
The Lion Hotel, the Street, Ash
OS grid reference
TR 288 584
Coordinates
51.27886, 1.27963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lion Hotel is a public house dating from the 16th century, with early 19th-century cladding. It features a timber frame covered with channelled render and has a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high on a plinth, with a moulded plat band. The roof is hipped with a gablet on the left side, and there is a double segmental and pedimented gable on the right. Stacks are located at the right end and clustered to the left. On the first floor, there are three three-light iron casement windows, while the ground floor has three mullioned and transomed three-light iron casements. To the right, there is a half-glazed door topped with a heavy cornice supported by consoles. At the rear, there is a mid-19th-century weatherboarded range with a slate roof, also two storeys high, featuring an external stair on the left side leading to a boarded door on the first floor. This section includes a wood and glass louvred skylight and a rear stack, and it may have originally served as a ballroom. The interior has some visible framing.

Local climate

The Lion Hotel 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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