Golden Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. Public house.

Golden Lion Public House

WRENN ID
tilted-lead-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 November 1966
Type
Public house
Address
Golden Lion Public House, Denbigh - Town, Denbigh
OS grid reference
SJ 051 661
Coordinates
53.18361, -3.42029
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Golden Lion Public House is a two-storey timber-framed building, currently covered in pebble-dash, with a steeply-pitched slate roof. The first floor juts out and is supported by a moulded timber bressummer with curved brackets. The original entrance is near the centre of the recessed ground floor, featuring a Tudor-arched opening with a heavy boarded and studded door that has a horizontal grille at the top. To the right of this entrance is another entrance with a two-panel door, followed by a late 19th-century two-pane sash window. The left bay has been extended to align with the jetty and contains an early 19th-century six-pane unhorned sash window. Above, there is an unaligned late 18th or early 19th-century twelve-pane unhorned sash window in a moulded, near-flush frame. In the centre of the first floor is an early 20th-century stuccoed rectangular plaque that displays the name 'Golden Lion' in raised letters, accompanied by a lion motif; to the right is a six-pane sliding sash window.

At the rear, there is a pitched rubble wing set back at right angles, which has two storeys above a basement. This wing features a steep slate roof with plain bargeboards and a squat central chimney. On the northeast side, there are four-pane casement windows on both floors, along with a boarded door and expressed timber lintels on the ground floor. There is also a further boarded door on the gable end, supported by three rubble sloping buttresses that diminish in size from left to right. The main block has a modern single-storey addition at the rear, which has a slated catslide roof and a modern rubble gable on the left.

Inside, the main ground floor room features chamfered ceiling beams and a fragmentary post-and-panel partition.

Local climate

Golden Lion Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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