Black Lion Including Walls Adjoining To East And West

This is a late 17th and early 18th century house, originally a public house, with 19th-century additions and refurbishment around 1980. It is constructed of Flemish bond red brick with burnt headers on coursed sandstone footings, with later brick to the rear. The roof is covered in peg tiles, and there are brick stacks and chimneyshafts.

The house has a double-depth plan, with a central entrance hall that once housed the main staircase. The principal rooms are located at the front, with service rooms to the rear. The rear rooms were rebuilt to two storeys in the early to mid-19th century. The building is two storeys high with attics and a cellar.

The front facade presents a symmetrical appearance with a 3-window arrangement featuring 19th-century Tudor-style windows. These windows are slightly narrower than the original openings. The central bay on the first floor has a small single-light window, while the others are oak mullion-and-transom bay windows with ovolo-moulding. A 20th-century copy replaces the original window on the first floor left. The ground floor windows have side lights and monopitch tile roofs, while the first-floor windows project slightly and rest on shaped brackets. The central doorway has a 20th-century fielded 2-panel door with a fanlight and pedimented doorcase, the opening being narrower than the original. Steps to the door have been removed. A flat brick band runs along the first-floor level. A timber eaves cornice and gable-ended roofs are present, with two front-gabled dormers featuring shaped bargeboards. The rear has a 3-window front with 19th-century 12-pane sash windows arranged around a central doorway.

The interior, which was not accessible for inspection, is said to retain significant original carpentry detail.

The house is set back from the road and is enclosed by curved quadrant walls extending forward to terminal piers. These walls are constructed of English bond brick with sandstone coping, and ramp down as they curve to face the front.

A large vegetable garden to the southeast and rear of the house is enclosed by a tall 19th-century brick wall, constructed with flying bond red brick and stone coping, incorporating a chamfered plinth and pilaster-like buttresses. A stable courtyard to the northwest of the house is also enclosed by a similar tall brick wall. The carriageway entrance on the northwest side has brick piers, while a gateway on the southeast side has square sections with stone piers and moulded caps. A 19th-century stable building, also of sandstone with a peg-tile roof and two front doors, completes the courtyard.