Former White Lion Public House
FORMER WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 496, WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255026
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former White Lion Public House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 496, WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255026
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former White Lion Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 496, WILMSLOW 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.
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:
- FORMER WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE, 496, WILMSLOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84866 92990
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/01/2018
SJ 89 SW, 698-1/8/658
MANCHESTER,
WITHINGTON,
WILMSLOW ROAD (west side),
No. 496,
Former White Lion Public House
(Formerly listed as: Withington Ale House; Previously known as: The White Lion WILMSLOW ROAD Didsbury)
20/06/88
II
Public house. 1881, by William Mellor. Brick, painted at
ground floor, with stone dressings, tiled roof. Irregular plan
on corner site with rounded corner tower. Eclectic Gothic
style. Two storeys and seven bays plus 4-storey tower;
segmental-headed doorway in third bay, with shafts and carved
keystone, and wrought-iron balcony over; stilted
segmental-headed windows at ground floor with granite shafts
and moulded heads; square-headed windows at first floor with
segmental tympana; prominent consoled cornice with moulded
terracotta flower motifs, half-dormer to third bay. Four-storey
tower with wrought-iron 1st-floor balcony and central
clock-turret with pyramidal roof. Moulded chimneys. Three-bay
corner and 3-bay left return wall in similar style. Interior
not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8486692990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458608
- 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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