White Lion Inn
WHITE LION INN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197392
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Inn
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE LION INN, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197392
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE LION INN, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE LION INN, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29736 37001
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE HIGH STREET 736-1/10/116 (South side) 16/12/74 White Lion Inn
GV II
Public house. C17, remodelled early C19. Painted brick with pantile roof. Single-depth extended to double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attic; 2-window range. 2 raking dormers behind a parapet; recessed panels over flat gauged brick arches to C20 horned 8/8-pane sash windows. On the ground floor, panelled pilasters flank slightly right-of-centre door and fascia which has moulded consoles to the sides flanking C20 large 3-light windows with small panes. The C20 door to rear is slightly left of centre implying a possible former 2-unit through-passage plan, it is flanked on both floors by C20 horned 8/8-pane sash windows, timber lintels to first floor and slightly cambered brick arches to ground floor. INTERIOR: substantial chamfered cross-beam to left of door; the central formerly rear wall is approx 1.5m thick, broken through to right where there was probably an open fireplace as room above has boarded-up chimney breast above and slightly to left of it. The attic is plastered but painted rough purlins are exposed.
Listing NGR: ST2973637006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373931
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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