The Lion Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 May 1988. Hotel.
The Lion Hotel
- WRENN ID
- sunken-quoin-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Lion Hotel, Newtown, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- OS grid reference
- SO 108 915
- Coordinates
- 52.51483, -3.31474
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Lion Hotel is a 19th-century building constructed with painted Flemish bond brick on a plinth. It features a moderately pitched slate roof and a dentil eaves cornice. There is a later brick stack positioned forward of the ridge on the right side, with a modern stack on the left. The building has early 12-pane flush framed sash windows located under the eaves, with timber sills. The ground floor windows are similar but horned, with gauged brick flat heads, consisting of one window to the right of the door and two to the left, all with stone sills.
The doorcase is plain and dates from the 19th century, featuring a dripboard and a large rectangular fanlight above a modern door. The right side of the building has a later chamfered corner. To the extreme left, there is a carriageway with a heavy frame and a soldier arch, topped by a 19th-century plaster lion on brackets.
At the rear, there is a cobbled former stableyard that includes weatherboarded outbuildings. A plaque from the 1930s, featuring a "winged wheel," is affixed to the front elevation, indicating its connection to a touring club.
Local climate
The Lion Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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