The Golden Lion the Golden Lion Public House

THE GOLDEN LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 2, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1358531
Date first listed:
14-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
The Golden Lion the Golden Lion Public House
Statutory Address:
THE GOLDEN LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 2, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1358531
Date first listed:
14-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
The Golden Lion the Golden Lion Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE GOLDEN LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 2, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
THE GOLDEN LION, NORTH STREET

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE GOLDEN LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 2, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
THE GOLDEN LION, NORTH STREET

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Havering (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 51156 88880

Details

HIGH STREET 1. 5107 Romford No 2 (The Golden Lion Public House) TQ 5088/5188 5/5 II 2. Inn of various dates from the C17 onwards. Front to High Street late C18 or early C19; 3 storeys, 4 bays, rendered with stucco rusticated quoins; ground floor has carriage entrance on left hand side and C19 bar front with central doorway, pedimented door hood on scrolled brackets and moulded cornice. First floor with 4 flush sashes with moulded hoods on scrolled brackets; 2nd floor 4 sashes with moulded wooden frames. Cornice with fragment of parapet above. Old tile roof hipped at east. Front to North Street: return wall of High Street front jettied above ground floor, the jetty projecting further at the north than the south. Two sashes to 1st floor with architraves and 2 small modern windows to 2nd floor. Further north is a C17 or early C18 timber-framed building of 2 storeys with a jettied 1st floor. Brick plinth, ground floor partly weatherboarded, partly rendered with a variety of window openings. Rendered 1st floor with 5 sashes. Old tile roof with one stack through ridge. To the north are the remains of a further timber-framed range. In the angle between the High Street and North Street ranges is an early C19 brick addition of 3 storeys with hipped slate roof.

Listing NGR: TQ5115688880

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
201592
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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