Golden Lion, Romford

Grade II listing:- 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.