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NOTTINGHAM
SK5739NW CLUMBER STREET
646-1/20/157 (West side)
27/04/92 No.11
Lion Hotel and associated caves
(Formerly Listed as:
CLUMBER STREET
The Lion Hotel)
II
Public house and associated caves. c1730, altered 1846, c1890
and C20. The caves, actually cellars, are undatable but
probably c1800. Brick with stucco front, stucco dressings and
renewed tile roof. Moulded eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys; 3 window range. Elaborate glazed tile
shopfront, late C19, with pilasters framing a recessed
entrance to the right, and a 3-light plate glass window to the
left. Fascia cornice on brackets, with the hotel's name in
raised tile lettering. Above, three 12-pane sashes with
cornices on brackets, and above them, 3 similar windows with
cornices and bracketed sill band. Above again, a blank flanked
by 9-pane sashes, all on a patterned sill band.
Rear elevation has a margin light sash to the second floor and
above, 2 similar sashes. Between them, a datestone inscribed
GS 1846.
INTERIOR: ground floor has a late C19 wooden fireplace with
Ionic columns and mirrored overmantel. Early C18 dogleg
staircase to 3 floors, with moulded and ramped handrail. 2
turned balusters per tread, boxed in, and moulded treads with
scrolled ends. On the first floor, a front room with 9-panel
ceiling, moulded plaster decoration and good quality white
marble fireplace. Segment-arched double panelled doors. On the
second floor, early C18 panelled doors and surrounds.
The caves, reached by brick winder stairs, are at 2 levels,
the lower level exceptionally deep, approx 5m. The upper caves
have C19 elliptical arched brick lining. The lower cave,
approx 6 x 8m, has rock-cut thrawls on each side. At one end,
a round-arched doorway into a semicircular cave, approx 5m
across, with brick wine bins and stone shelves.
(Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992:
Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham:
1992-: 4, 8).
Listing NGR: SK5735839976
