The White Lion Public House

THE WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, PASSAGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208519
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
The White Lion Public House
Statutory Address:
THE WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, PASSAGE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208519
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
The White Lion Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, PASSAGE ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, PASSAGE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
ST 57244 77528

Details

BRISTOL

ST5777NW PASSAGE ROAD, Westbury On Trym 901-1/19/2079 (South East side) 04/03/77 The White Lion Public House (Formerly Listed as: PASSAGE ROAD (East side) The White Lion Hotel Public House)

II

Public house. C18, altered and extended late C19, and again mid C20. Roughcast, lateral stacks and a double-pile roof, hipped to the front and a mansard behind. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. Originally a broadly symmetrical front with battered octagonal timber posts to a canopy bearing a stone lion couchant above a 2-leaf C19 door, with a coped parapet extending down the right side; C19 right-hand full-height bay, paired left-hand ground-floor sashes, and small single ones above, in shallow reveals, all with plate-glass sashes. The right return has a projecting centre with mansard roof, a doorway with wooden hood on brackets in the left section, a 3-window range in the centre of 6/6-pane sashes, horned on the ground floor, and a tripartite first-floor sash at the right end. INTERIOR: altered late C20 public house interior.

Listing NGR: ST5724477528

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
380147
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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