White Lion Inn
19,20 AND 21, HENLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205432
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Inn
- Statutory Address:
- 19,20 AND 21, HENLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205432
- Date first listed:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19,20 AND 21, HENLEY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WHITE LION INN
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:
- 19,20 AND 21, HENLEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE LION INN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20009 55157
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2055SW HENLEY STREET 604-1/8/105 (North East side) Nos.19, 20 AND 21
GV II
Part of White Lion Inn, now shops. C17 or early C18 with early C19 and c1900 alterations. Brick with internal timber-frame and stuccoed front with applied timber-frame decoration; steep tile roof with brick cross-axial stack and small stack to rear. 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. Ground floor has 3 shop fronts under pentice. 1st floor has irregularly spaced windows with C19 cross-casements; attic has 2 gables with 2-light C19 casements. Hipped ends of gabled rear wings visible; stack has 3 square shafts and moulded cap. Rear has 2 gabled wings, one to left with straight parapet and windows with rubbed brick flat arches, some blocked. INTERIOR: chamfered beams, and some exposed framing to No.21; roof noted as having heavy roof trusses with tie beams and collars, wind braces. The last remaining section of The White Lion: an important C18 and C19 coaching inn. John Payton, the owner, was influential in the organisation of the 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee, and the development of tourism in Stratford. (Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 39; Fogg N: Stratford-upon-Avon: Portrait of a Town: Chichester: 1986-: 91, 100, 115).
Listing NGR: SP2000955157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366270
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fogg, N, Stratford Upon Avon Portrait of a Town, (1986), 91 100 105
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 39
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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