The Royal Lion Hotel

Hotel, comprising 2 separate buildings, the original hotel, No 1, to right, and No 2 Lavallin house, to left. No 1 is of painted stucco, large, of 4 storeys and 3 bays capped by parapet with raised blocks between window bays, and broad band beneath. Plinth, channelled angle piers topped by S-shaped scrolls, the right scroll under band, the left scroll connecting across from pier to band which terminates short. Four-storey canted bay window each side with 2-4-2-pane sash windows, moulded timber cornices over each floor becoming heavier towards the top, the topmost cornice dentilled. Centre bay has paired small 4-pane sashes to 2 upper floors, the top pair recessed in a longer panel, the first floor has large 2-4-2-pane tripartite sash matching in scale the windows of the bay each side. Step up to centre recessed door in stucco rusticated doorcase with channelled pilasters, moulded capitals, stilted cambered head and cornice over. Cast-iron C19 royal arms in arch. C20 door. Rear wing running back along White Lion St. No 2 has large painted stuccoed front with fine ashlar full entablature with deep frieze, moulded cornice and low parapet, presumably contemporary with the Bath stone front of No 3, dated to 1851. Three-storey, three-window range of plate glass sash-windows in moulded stucco shouldered surrounds, smaller on upper floor, and with cornices on main floors. No door. Rear of unpainted stucco has moulded ashlar cornice and parapet, 3 dormers, 3-window range and end wall brick chimneys. Ground floor additions out to Upper Frog St, with roughcast wall, door to left, cambered-arched coach entry centre and C20 window right.

Interior of No 1 is much altered on ground floor for hotel. No 2 has main room with elegant mid C19 plasterwork. Cornice with egg-and-dart moulding, border with leaf and flower scroll, and centre rose. Panelled shutters.