White Lion Hotel
WHITE LION HOTEL, 15 AND 16, MARKET CROSS PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269713
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE LION HOTEL, 15 AND 16, MARKET CROSS PLACE
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- 2002-09-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/06869/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269713
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE LION HOTEL, 15 AND 16, MARKET CROSS PLACE
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 HOTEL, 15 AND 16, MARKET CROSS PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldeburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 46538 56908
Details
ALDEBURGH
TM4656 MARKET CROSS PLACE 837-1/4/34 (West side) 27/02/50 Nos.15 AND 16 White Lion Hotel
GV II
Inn and two houses; now public house and hotel. C17 inn refronted c1840 and extended into mid and early C19 houses to south in C19 and C20: C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with slate roofs, some C20 asbestos slate. EXTERIOR: original inn has 3-storey front with irregular fenestration. Polygonal angle turrets rise above crenellated parapet. Ground floor lit by two tripartite sashes with glazing bars of 2/2, 6/6, 2/2 formation, and a fixed 12-pane window to either side. First floor has two taller tripartite windows with 3/6, 6/9, 3/6 sashes: second floor, three 8/8 unhorned sashes. Tripartite windows on ground and first floors have continuous hoodmoulds. Dentilled eaves cornice. Internal gable-end stack to north. Mid C19 central block has 3 storeys, 4 bays, those to first and second floors blind in the third bay. Double-leaf panelled door in third bay set behind portico porch on two unfluted columns. Ground and first-floor sashes all unhorned have 8/8 glazing bars; on second floor, three 4/8 unhorned sashes. Dentil eaves cornice. Internal gable end stack to north and ridge stack left of centre. South house c1820 has 2-storey 4-window front. Plain doorway at left end: to right on ground floor single sashes alternate with tripartite horned sashes, all without glazing bars. Four first-floor tripartite sashes set in two groups of two: 2/2, 6/6, 2/2 glazing bars. Dentil eaves cornice. Internal gable-end stack to south. INTERIOR: north block opened out on ground floor to form dining room: at north end is a C17 rendered brick fireplace under 4-centred arch with dragons carved in relief in spandrels. Reeded and fluted Ionic pilasters right and left support strapwork frieze and a low-relief gadrooned cornice. Overmantel with central arcaded panel flanked by one geometric panel either side, each defined by pilasters, which have high-relief carving of 2 bacchanalian male figures and 2 female figures. Upper cornice with strapwork. Small-framed panelling to room, most of which is not in situ. Room in ground floor of centre block with C19 fielded panelling and an egg-and-dart frieze. Ballroom at south end of hotel has C19 panelling and pilasters. Staircase is
open-stringed, with turned balusters and foliate wreathed tread ends.
Listing NGR: TM4653856908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460468
- 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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