The Three Lions

The Three Lions is a public house dating back to the 16th century, with a 17th-century crosswing and subsequent additions and alterations from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and brick-clad, with brick, coursed Bargate stone, and plain tile and Welsh slate roofs. The building has a hall-and-crosswing plan, with the original crosswing situated on the right.

The hall range originally comprised two bays, but has been extended to the rear with a single-storey 19th-century outshut, to the front with a two-storey 19th-century bay forming a second crosswing, and with a single-storey 19th-century infill between the two crosswings. A later 19th-century stable addition to the right has been truncated and converted for pub use in the mid to late 20th century.

The front of the building features a projecting 19th-century section on the left with a canted bay window to the ground floor, 12-pane sashes with segmental brick arches above, brick coping and kneelers to a stepped gable, and an offset stack to the left return. A late 20th-century timber porch masks a 20th-century door. The single-storey addition to the front of the hall range has a former six-panel door on the left and a canted bay window with 20th-century windows on the right. Above this addition, a short three-light window with 20th-century leaded lights is visible on the first floor of the hall range. The right-hand crosswing has a 19th-century segmental-arched doorway and a wide window with a two-light, 12-pane casement window above, topped by a steeply-pitched roof with a ridge stack. The 19th-century former stable addition, now a toilet block, is constructed of stone and features three small flat-arched windows, dentilled eaves, and a Welsh slate roof.

At the rear, the ground floor of the crosswing on the left is obscured by an outshut; its gable displays an exposed roof truss with queen posts, collar, and V braces to the principal rafters. A central bay has a tile-hung gable with a small four-pane window and stack. The right bay features an added 19th-century outshut with a Welsh slate roof and a tall external stack, along with another stack at the right corner.

The left return has a brick section from the 18th century, with vitrified headers in Flemish bond, and a three-light casement window on the first floor, as well as banded fish-scale tiles to the gable. The right return (crosswing) has a brick ground floor; on the first floor, the timber framing is exposed with square panels and straight braces.

Inside, much of the timber framing on the ground floor has been removed, but at the far left end, a former rear-wall truss retains mortices in wall posts for former braces and in the tie-beam for former wall studs. More of the frame remains exposed on the first floor, including straight and arched braces from wall posts down to the mid-rail. In the bar area, there is an old panelled dado and straight-backed bench seats. A fine 19th-century cast-iron fireplace with a vertically-sliding shutter and two floral-decorated colourful tiles above the opening is located in a first-floor room.