Description

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SO 4959
808-1/1/10006

LEOMINSTER
BROAD STREET (West side)
Lion Ballroom

(Formerly listed as Lion Ballroom and Youth Enquiry Service)

24.07.1954

GV
II*

Public hall, formerly assembly room and ballroom, with office below. c1830. Red brick with slate roof.

EXTERIOR: two storeys; five-window range of tall two-light wooden mullion and transom casements under brick segmental arches. Ground floor has arcade, formerly open, now with C20 glazing and doors, of round arches with impost bands. Wide storey band above.

INTERIOR: grand first-floor hall, in Neo-Classical style with fine richly detailed plasterwork, is articulated with Corinthian pilasters to sides and columns to ends supporting full entablature all round. Entrance wall has pair of panelled double doors and far end wall has a platform recess behind the columns decorated with blind arches. To one side the window architraves have elaborate consoles supporting cornices and these are mirrored by blank architraves on the opposite wall with a pair of simple fireplaces below two of them. Above the entablature tall coving frames a central panel decorated with fine acanthus leaf 'roses' and smaller fleurons.

Listing NGR: SO4957859168

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537575

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)