White Lion Public House

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