The Golden Lion public house

The Golden Lion is a public house dating from the late 18th century, with a stone-built rear range that may be earlier. The building comprises a front range of two storeys with attic accommodation and an extended rear section.

The front elevation is constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with the ground floor rendered. It presents a symmetrical three-bay, three-storey facade with a moulded timber eaves cornice and raised coped gables with kneelers and end stacks. The upper windows have stone wedge lintels with projecting key-blocks, projecting stone sills and two-over-two horned sashes. The ground floor windows have been replaced with circa 1930 canted bay windows with leaded lights, and the front door is fitted with a rectangular leaded over-light. Pattresses for tie bars exist at both first and second floor levels, with the lower pair being circular and the upper pair X-form. The central window to the top floor is blocked and features a silhouette of a heraldic rampant golden lion. The side elevation is rendered with inscription to imitate stone ashlar. The south-west gable is blind except for two small Yorkshire sash windows. The rear has a Yorkshire sash window with a timber lintel to the first floor of a small outshot.

The rear range is constructed of coursed squared local rubble and stone in two bays, with a single-bay north-west brick extension. A brick outshot in English Garden Wall bond is present to the rear. The rear stone-built section has a central ridge stack and three Yorkshire sash windows, with a number of modified openings to the brick extension, all existing openings now featuring 20th-century joinery. Pan tile roofs and brick stacks cover the structure.

The plan follows a central entrance arrangement with the stair positioned to the rear right, a small outshot to the rear left, and a two-storey range extended from the rear right. The ground floor has been partially opened up but retains part of the entrance passage.

The interior of the front range has been largely opened on the ground floor, retaining a short entrance passage that terminates at a 19th-century doorway with a three-pane over-light. The upper floors contain mainly lightweight planked partitions thought to be original. One fireplace retains a late 19th-century cast iron surround. The staircase is enclosed by planked partitions, with one short section of original balustrading surviving on the first floor. Two planked doors on HL hinges exist on the second floor, and an 18th-century two-panel door leads to the cellar. Exposed in the cellar ceiling is a reused beam from a late medieval timber-framed building, showing mortise holes indicating it was formerly a rail jointed to five studs and a brace. Both front and rear ranges have simple purlin roof structures. The stone-built rear range retains its central stack, indicating the upper floor was unheated.