After leaving The Quarry (now called The Dingle), I headed back into Shrewsbury Town Centre.

Belmont Bank

The Lion pub seen from Belmont Bank (the back side).

The view was from an empty car park.

It is Grade I listed - the main entrance is on Wyle Cop.

The Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury

   SHREWSBURY

   SJ4912SW WYLE COP
   653-1/15/739 (South side)
   10/01/53 The Lion Hotel

   GV I

   Hotel, comprising 3 buildings. Earliest building is late C15,
   altered early C19, the others late C18. Earliest building
   render over timber-frame with plain tiled roof, the others
   brick, roofs not visible behind parapets.
   EXTERIOR: earliest building in the middle of the row: 3
   storeys, 2-window range. Tripartite sashes with traceried
   glazing in brick lower storey are C20 insertions, echoing the
   design of the upper windows. First floor has projecting outer
   bays with traceried tripartite sashes linked by a balcony with
   paired cusped arches over it. Traceried glazing to
   horizontally sliding sashes in upper storey.
   Main block to right built as hotel in later C18, possibly
   incorporating earlier structure. 4 storeys, 6-window range.
   Painted brick to ground floor, with central door with Doric
   columns carrying entablature which supports statue of lion,
   flanked by 12-pane sash windows. Carriage entry to right.
   Upper windows also 12-pane sashes with flat-arched gauged
   brick heads (6 panes to attic). Central windows have moulded
   stone architraves. Plain parapet eaves. Rear wing with bowed
   gable end and round-arched windows houses ball room and music
   room. Parapet has stone panel with mutilated coat of arms, and
   formerly supported a lion carved by John Nelson of Shrewsbury
   in 1777.
   Lower block incorporated into hotel is c1800. 2 storeys,
   4-window range. Painted brick to lower storey. Doorway to
   right in open pediment, and 3 round-arched windows with
   traceried glazing recessed in round-arched arcade. Upper
   windows are 12-pane sashes with flat-arched gauged brick
   heads. Moulded cornice to parapet eaves, gable end stacks.
   INTERIOR: exposed framing visible in central section. Ball
   room in rear wing on ground floor has dado panelling and fine
   plasterwork panels between windows. Music room above has very
   fine and elaborate decorative scheme in the style of Adam,
   with low relief plaster swags and emblems of music in wall
   panels, plain dado and enriched frieze. Paired marble
   fireplaces. Balcony carried on polished marble columns, now
   partitioned below. Open hall in front block is an early C20
   feature, perhaps based on original structure, though nothing
   survives. Wide segmentally-arched stone fireplace with
   quatrefoil timber panels in hood. Leaded lights with armorial
   stained glass panels.
   An historic inn, closely associated with the London-Holyhead
   mail coaches and with such persons as Dickens, De Quincey,
   Paganini and Jenny Lind.

   Listing NGR: SJ4931412340

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage