The Lion Hotel

Hotel, painted roughcast with stucco, imitation slate to deep eaved roof, carried on mid C19 shaped brackets. Brick end stacks. Three storeys, three bays with 4-pane later C19 sashes in shaped stuccoed surrounds with painted sills on small sill brackets. Upper floor has eared surrounds with rounded inner corners and quadrant inner moulding. Outer first floor windows have cambered headed surrounds, shouldered, with keystones, under a curved hoodmould with neo-Grec acroterial ornaments. Ground floor has outer windows not aligned, right hand sash in thin moulded cambered-headed surround with keystone, aligned slightly inward of windows above. Left hand has big window of 8-panes (replacing a vehicular entry), with cambered head, stucco voussoirs and keystone. Door to right was a window matching that to right of porch. Just right of centre is main entry in big two-storey porch. Recessed arched doorway with 6-panel door, brass lion mask and plain fanlight, up four stone steps. Stuccoed porch projects across pavement, arched on three sides, with square painted stone piers, moulded caps and bases. Stucco string course above with lion masks at angles under cast-iron C19 balustrade. Above is a big timber mid C19 square glazed bay of three long lights to front, two to each side, stucco moulded brackets, cornice and parapet surmounted by gold-painted recumbent lion. Balcony ironwork has twisted short shafts and urn finials, and panels of scroll work with lion masks. Rear has large rear SW wing to left with brick end stack , then lower three-storey range with side wall and S end stack and finally a low two-storey range on S end. Windows mostly altered, various additions on E courtyard side.

Ground floor altered. Stairs on left behind front left room, lower part altered, open well to upper floors with straight string and square balusters. Renewed square newels. One long room to first floor front, ceiling with plastered beams dividing it into 4 panels.