The Lion Hotel

The Lion Hotel is a hotel constructed with painted roughcast and stucco, featuring an imitation slate roof with deep eaves supported by mid 19th-century shaped brackets. It has brick end stacks and stands three storeys tall with three bays. The windows are later 19th-century sashes with four panes, set in shaped stuccoed surrounds with painted sills resting on small brackets. The upper floor windows have eared surrounds with rounded inner corners and quadrant inner moulding. The outer first-floor windows have cambered-headed surrounds with shouldered designs and keystones, topped with a curved hoodmould adorned with neo-Grec acroterial ornaments.

On the ground floor, the outer windows are misaligned; the right-hand sash is in a thin moulded cambered-headed surround with a keystone, positioned slightly inward compared to the windows above. The left-hand side features a large eight-pane window, which replaced a vehicular entry, with a cambered head, stucco voussoirs, and a keystone. The door to the right was originally a window that matched the one to the right of the porch.

The main entrance is located just right of centre within a large two-storey porch. This porch has a recessed arched doorway with a six-panel door, a brass lion mask, and a plain fanlight, accessed by four stone steps. The stuccoed porch projects over the pavement and is arched on three sides, supported by square painted stone piers with moulded caps and bases. Above the porch is a stucco string course featuring lion masks at the corners, beneath a cast-iron 19th-century balustrade. The upper section includes a large timber mid-19th-century square glazed bay with three long lights at the front and two on each side, supported by stucco moulded brackets, a cornice, and a parapet topped with a gold-painted recumbent lion. The balcony ironwork features twisted short shafts, urn finials, and panels of scroll work with lion masks.

The rear of the hotel includes a large southwest wing to the left with a brick end stack, followed by a lower three-storey range with a side wall and south end stack, and finally a low two-storey range at the south end. Many of the windows have been altered, and there are various additions on the east courtyard side.

The ground floor has been altered, with stairs located on the left behind the front left room. The lower part of the stairs has been modified, leading to an open well that connects to the upper floors, featuring a straight string and square balusters with renewed square newels. The first-floor front consists of one long room, with a ceiling that has plastered beams dividing it into four panels.