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Latitude: 52.2285 / 52°13'42"N
Longitude: -2.7394 / 2°44'21"W
OS Eastings: 349596
OS Northings: 259183
OS Grid: SO495591
Mapcode National: GBR FK.1M45
Mapcode Global: VH84W.G7NY
Plus Code: 9C4V67H6+C7
Entry Name: Lion House
Listing Date: 24 July 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255380
English Heritage Legacy ID: 459603
ID on this website: 101255380
Location: Leominster, County of Herefordshire, HR6
County: County of Herefordshire
Civil Parish: Leominster
Built-Up Area: Leominster
Traditional County: Herefordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Herefordshire
Church of England Parish: Leominster
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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SO 4959
808-1/1/47
LEOMINSTER
BROAD STREET (West side)
No 15 (Lion House)
(Formerly listed as No.15, Lion Works)
24.07.1954
GV
II
Shops and offices. Late C18/early C19. Stucco; steep-pitched hipped composite tile roof; brick ridge stack.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and cellar; three-window range: tripartite 2/2: 6/6: 2/2 sashes with some old glass, in broad beaded cases; 1/1: 3/3: 1/1 sashes with sillband, over; band with six garlands, and moulded cornice to parapet with central figure of lion. C20 shop fronts recessed behind four moulded segmental arches with enriched keyblocks, on square columns; four-moulded-panel door and plain fanlight, under moulded semicircular arch, to right; moulded cornice with figurehead stop-consoles, overall; to right, panelled double doors with cambered heads, in chamfered frame under shallow arch, to passage to rear.
Rear: twin gables, one slate-hung, one with brick modillion eaves; brick stack. Two-storey cross-wing with hipped Welsh slate roof, and tripartite window with 2/2: 6/6: 2/2 sashes in oak case, over late C19 triple 6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR not inspected. Associated with Alexander & Duncan's Lion Foundry, which produced agricultural machinery.
Listing NGR: SO4959659183
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