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Golden Lion Hotel, Hunstanton

Field	Value
hotel_name	Golden Lion Hotel
logo_width	100px
image	Golden Lion Hotel, Hunstanton - geograph.org.uk - 167803.jpg
pushpin_map	Norfolk
location	Hunstanton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England
pushpin_map_caption	Norfolk
address	Cliff Parade
Hunstanton
Norfolk
PE36 6BQ
coordinates
opening_date	1850
architect	William Butterfield
number_of_rooms	27 en-suite bedrooms
number_of_restaurants	1
number_of_bars	1 (The Lion Bar)
parking	Yes
embed	yes
designation1	Grade II Listed Building
designation1_date	20 September 1984
designation1_number	1342241

Hunstanton Norfolk PE36 6BQ The Golden Lion Hotel is in the coastal English town of Hunstanton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, England. It is a three-star hotel and has been a Grade II listed building since 20 September 1984.

Location

The hotel stands in a prominent position on the landward side of Cliff Parade overlooking the Green. It has wide panoramic views of the sea and Hunstanton's main beach.

History

The area in which this hotel stands was conceived as New Hunstanton and was the brain child of Henry Le Strange of Hunstanton Hall. Le Strange wanted Hunstanton to develop as a sea-side resort with the expected arrival of the railway, which finally arrived in 1862. Le Strange's son Hamon controlled the later part of the scheme, and he employed several London architects to bring his father's plans to realization. One of those architects was William Butterfield, who had a hand in redeveloping the original New Inn into the Golden Lion Hotel.

Description

The building seen today is built from the local carrstone, which is laid in a random coursed manner around the doorways and windows are dressed with stone quoins and mullions in the high Victorian Tudor Gothic style. The building is set on an L-shaped ground floor plan.

References

{{NHLE
''OS Explorer Map 236'' – King's Lynn, Downham Market & Swaffham. {{ISBN. 0-319-23808-3.
County A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, {{ISBN. 978-1-84348-614-5
Norfolk 2: Norfolk: North-west and South, By [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] and Bill Wilson. Hunstanton entry, Page 214: {{ISBN. 0-300-09657-7
[http://www.hunstanton-civic-society.org/history.htm Reference to Hamon Le Strange] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-03-08 retrieved 30 January 2013)

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