White Lion Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. Hotel. 7 related planning applications.

White Lion Hotel

WRENN ID
dreaming-pier-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ribble Valley
Constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Hotel
Address
White Lion Hotel, 11, Market Place, Clitheroe, BB7 2BZ
OS grid reference
SD 743 419
Coordinates
53.87295, -2.39106
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Lion Hotel is a mid-19th century Gothic building located on the west side of Market Place. It stands two storeys high with attics and features a rendered exterior. The hotel has two gables adorned with three finials, a moulded string course, and a parapet. Each gable has two windows with two mullion lights, and both floors have windows with three lights, all featuring rectangular dripmoulds. The entrance door has a four-centred head, a rectangular dripmould, and carved panels. To the right of the entrance is a two-storey canted bay window with three lights, a moulded cornice, and a rough stone plinth. The roof is topped with a row of stone octagonal chimney stacks at the center. The White Lion Hotel is part of a group of buildings that includes Nos 1 to 9 (odd), 5A, and 7A, with Nos 7 and 7A being of local interest only.

Local climate

White Lion Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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