Former White Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Former White Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- silver-parapet-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Former White Lion Public House, 496, Wilmslow Road, M20 3BG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 848 929
- Coordinates
- 53.43349, -2.22926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former White Lion Public House is an 1881 building designed by William Mellor. It features a brick exterior, painted at the ground floor, with stone dressings and a tiled roof. The structure has an irregular plan on a corner site, highlighted by a rounded corner tower, and is designed in an eclectic Gothic style.
The building has two storeys and seven bays, along with a four-storey tower. Notable features include a segmental-headed doorway in the third bay, which has shafts and a carved keystone, along with a wrought-iron balcony above it. The ground floor has stilted segmental-headed windows with granite shafts and moulded heads, while the first floor features square-headed windows with segmental tympana. A prominent consoled cornice adorned with moulded terracotta flower motifs and a half-dormer can be found in the third bay.
The four-storey tower includes a wrought-iron balcony on the first floor and a central clock-turret topped with a pyramidal roof. Moulded chimneys are also present. The three-bay corner and three-bay left return wall are designed in a similar style. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former White Lion Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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