The Golden Lion Public House

The Golden Lion Public House is likely the result of three originally separate houses, now functioning as a public house. It dates from the early 19th century, with alterations made in 1879 and 1897. The building features painted stucco walls set on a chamfered plinth, with angle pilasters, a sill band, and an eaves cornice. The roof is made of graduated local slate and has a hipped corner, along with 19th-century ridge and end chimney stacks.

The structure is two storeys high with four unequal bays, and it has a five-bay return that faces Princess Street. The facade includes paired central panelled doors with overlights, which are separated by an engaged column in a pilastered surround. Flanking the doors are canted bay casement windows, all beneath an overall signboard with a stucco cornice that continues around the return and is supported by pilasters. Above the doorways, there are two raised bays with paired sash windows, and these, along with other upper floor windows, are set in plain reveals. There is an angled doorway on the corner, while the return features a right doorway and large ground-floor casements in pilastered surrounds, with upper floor windows similar to those on the facade.

Inside, the public house has etched and stained leaded-glass doors and panels. Plans held in the Cumbria County Record Office indicate that internal alterations were approved on 28 February 1879, and further changes introduced the bay windows and unified what had been No. 1 Princess Street into the building, with approval granted in 1897.