The White Lion Public House (On Corner of Winters Lane)
THE WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE (ON CORNER OF WINTERS LANE), 31, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347981
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The White Lion Public House (On Corner of Winters Lane)
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE (ON CORNER OF WINTERS LANE), 31, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347981
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The White Lion Public House (On Corner of Winters Lane)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE (ON CORNER OF WINTERS LANE), 31, HIGH 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:
- THE WHITE LION PUBLIC HOUSE (ON CORNER OF WINTERS LANE), 31, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkern
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28954 26403
Details
TL 2826 WALKERN HIGH STREET (east side)
7/1 No 31 (The White Lion PH) 19.10.51 (on corner of Winters Lane) (formerly listed as the White Lion Inn)
GV II
Inn. C16, altered in late Cl7. Timber frame on brick base, roughcast with weatherboarding to ends, rear and apron to S wing. Red brick facing to centre chequered with black headers. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, long H-plan inn facing W, with projecting gabled crosswings at each end, 6-windows long brick facade in centre, and wide projecting porch next the S wing. The central part has a large central chimney a third from S end, and an enclosed rear gallery linking the wings. Smaller chimney with 2 diagonal square shafts (rebuilt) at N end of centre. C19 chimney inserted on N side of N wing. One and a half storeys plastered extension to rear gabled stair projection. On the W front the plastered gabled wings each have wavy C19 bargeboards with pendants at apex and foot and a flush 3-light casement window to each floor. The plastered porch has a C19 wide oak Tudor arch with 2 chamfered orders and octagonal shafts, under a moulded label. Seats flank a battened door. The brick facade has a plinth, floorband, moulded eaves cornice, segmental arches to lower windows, and slightly recessed Cl7 cross windows with wooden opening lights. The 1st and 5th windows from N are painted in plastered recesses (the 1st ground floor window has been opened up with a matching cross window). Fine doorcase under 3rd window. 6-panel flush beaded door in moulded surround with full entablature on heavy plain trusses. Swelled frieze and dentilled cornice breaking forward over trusses under a triangular pediment. Interior has exposed chamfered beams and exposed close-studding in 1st floor of 2-bay S wing. Shield-shaped corbel supports floor beam in 2-bay N wing. Ovolo-moulded 2-light blocked windows in upper floor of S wall of S wing. Trimmer suggests a stair at E end of S service wing, which has lower floor levels. (RCHM (1911) 225: Pevsner (1977) 373).
Listing NGR: TL2895426403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 373
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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