Lion Ballroom

Lion Ballroom, Lion Yard, Broad Street, HR6 8BT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1119689
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1954
List Entry Name:: Lion Ballroom
Statutory Address:: Lion Ballroom, Lion Yard, Broad Street, HR6 8BT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1119689
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Jun-1997
List Entry Name:: Lion Ballroom
Statutory Address 1:: Lion Ballroom, Lion Yard, Broad Street, HR6 8BT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Lion Ballroom, Lion Yard, Broad Street, HR6 8BT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Leominster
National Grid Reference:: SO 49578 59168

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 January 2023 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards

SO 4959 808-1/1/10006

LEOMINSTER BROAD STREET (West side) Lion Ballroom

(Formerly listed as Lion Ballroom and Youth Enquiry Service)

24.07.1954

GV II*

Public hall, formerly assembly room and ballroom, with office below. c1830. Red brick with slate roof.

EXTERIOR: two storeys; five-window range of tall two-light wooden mullion and transom casements under brick segmental arches. Ground floor has arcade, formerly open, now with C20 glazing and doors, of round arches with impost bands. Wide storey band above.

INTERIOR: grand first-floor hall, in Neo-Classical style with fine richly detailed plasterwork, is articulated with Corinthian pilasters to sides and columns to ends supporting full entablature all round. Entrance wall has pair of panelled double doors and far end wall has a platform recess behind the columns decorated with blind arches. To one side the window architraves have elaborate consoles supporting cornices and these are mirrored by blank architraves on the opposite wall with a pair of simple fireplaces below two of them. Above the entablature tall coving frames a central panel decorated with fine acanthus leaf 'roses' and smaller fleurons.

Listing NGR: SO4957859168

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Legacy System number:: 469186
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.