White Lion Public House
WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 22, ST JAMES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244973
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Public House
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 22, ST JAMES STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244973
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 22, ST JAMES 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 PUBLIC HOUSE, 22, ST JAMES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 84205 32525
Details
BURNLEY
SD8432NW ST JAMES STREET 906-1/16/132 (South side) 18/02/92 No.22 White Lion Public House
GV II
Public house. 1910. By H Thompson of Blackpool; altered. Sandstone ashlar (Accrington brick at rear), hipped slate roof with lead-clad cupola. Edwardian Baroque style. Rectangular plan on corner site, with splayed corner. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with two 3-window facades hinged on a splayed corner surmounted by a cupola; with a chamfered plinth, a channelled pilaster at the end of each facade, a moulded cornice with cresting over the windows, and a parapet with centre panel. The ground floor has a large round-headed doorway in the centre, with a hollow-moulded surround including a keystone, a plain fanlight and a pilastered architrave which has a large cornice on prominent consoles and a shaped blocking course with rectangular terminals; a large square 2-light window with arched glazing bars to the left and a smaller window with circular glazing bars to the right, both with panelled aprons, moulded sills on fluted consoles and plain surrounds with moulded cornices (that to the left segmental-arched). The 1st floor has a round-headed 2-light casement in the centre with a dentilled lintel to the openings, a keystone, and a scalloped feature on the cornice above, and sashed windows either side with prominent sills on fluted brackets, plain surrounds with enrichment at impost level, and carved scrolled cresting on the cornice above. The spayed corner has a round-headed doorway with prominent imposts, dentilled lintel, and run-out voussoirs with a keystone, and at 1st floor a semicircular mullioned-and-transomed oriel window which has a conical base enriched with swags, ropework enrichment to the transom, and an ogival cupola with a finial. The left return (to Parker Lane) is in similar but simpler style. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with No.18 (Yates Wine Lodge) on opposite corner (qv).
Listing NGR: SD8420532525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467204
- 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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