Ye Golden Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Public house, farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Ye Golden Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-alcove-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house, farmhouse
- Address
- Ye Golden Lion Public House, 19, Sheep Street, Wellingborough, NN8 1BL
- OS grid reference
- SP 893 676
- Coordinates
- 52.29996, -0.69132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ye Golden Lion Public House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a public house, believed to date from around 1540 and restored in the mid-19th century. It features squared coursed and banded limestone and ironstone, along with a close studded timber frame and a plain-tile roof from the 20th century. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a four-window range.
The central door, which dates from the 20th century, is framed with a moulded stone surround and has a four-centred head. To the left of the entrance, there is a projecting cross wing with an oversailing timber-framed upper storey. The ground floor has a six-light casement window, while the first floor features a four-light oriel window. The first floor window on the far left is a half dormer with a wooden mullion and transom. Other windows throughout the building are two- to eight-light casements with wooden mullions, all fitted with leaded lights. The gable parapets are made of ashlar, and there are large brick and stone stacks at the ridge and ends of the building. The projection to the left of the entrance and the corresponding change in roof level may suggest that the building has two distinct construction periods. The rear of the building has 19th-century brick extensions.
Inside, the room to the left of the entrance features an open fireplace with a bressumer and moulded, chamfered ceiling beams. The room to the right of the entrance is an open hall, primarily restored in the 19th century, which includes a minstrels gallery with an 18th-century turned balustrade, likely reset from another location.
Local climate
Ye Golden Lion Public House 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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