Golden Lion Hotel, Cliff Parade, The Green, Hunstanton

Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 11 Jul 2022

Grade II Listed hotel. The 29 room hotel was built from 1846 and is now part of the Coast and Country Hotels Group. The first building in the 'New' Hunstanton, early directories list it as Hunstanton-St Edmund's the brain child of Henry Le Strange. The hotel, possibly by William Butter- field, opened as the New Inn in 1847. Hunstanton is not in my 1850 directory but by 1854 it was known as the Royal Hotel. By my 1877 directory it has changed to the Golden Lion Hotel. As part of the Specialist Leisure Group, in May 2020 the hotel closed when the group went into administration "due to the impact of COVID-19". It opened 4 months later on 2nd October taken on by the Warrington-based company, Bespoke Hotels. Closed again due to the COVID lockdown it partially re-opened in May 2021 as part of newly-formed collection of former Shearings Hotels, Coast & Country Hotel Collection. Licensees or managers include; 1854-1856 Mary Savory; 1864-1869 Henry Whiting; 1870-1872 Thomas Mahon; 1877 Mrs Elizabeth Mahon; 1879-1896 William W Nourse and Benjamin F Rowell; 1901-1912 Miss Kate Rennison; 1916 Miss R S Dangerfield, manageress; 1933-1937 Charles Ernest Grey; 1949 Douglas Victor Gray; 1960 Peter Horsfall; 1961 Thomas Rowland Harman; 1962 Peter Horsfall and Horace Hinchcliffe; 1965 Norman Goode and Horace Hinchcliffe; 1967 Robert Keith McMillan and Peter Horsfall; 1989 Denis Beeaon, manager.

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