White Lion House is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1995. House. 2 related planning applications.

White Lion House

WRENN ID
open-ashlar-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Derbyshire
Constituency
North East Derbyshire MP: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1995
Type
House
Address
White Lion House, Butts Road, Ashover, S45 0AX
OS grid reference
SK 347 630
Coordinates
53.163, -1.481
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Lion House is a Grade II listed building located on Butts Road in Ashover. This house, which was formerly an inn, dates back to the mid-17th century and has 18th and 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed from coursed gritstone with ashlar dressings, featuring quoins, coped gables with plain kneelers, and ball finials on the west side. The house has two ridge stacks and a Welsh slate roof, forming an L-plan layout with the 17th-century range facing the street.

The north elevation is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with a gabled bay at the west end. This gable features a quoined doorway on the east side, which has a quoined surround, a heavy lintel, and a plain planked door. Above the door, there is a figure on a moulded base. To the west, there are stacked windows at both ground and first floor levels; the ground floor window has two lights in a plain surround, while the first floor has a three-light mullioned window. Additionally, there is a single-light 17th-century window at the gable apex. On the west side, there is a small single-storey lean-to with a stone slate roof. The east side has three bays featuring stone-framed 19th-century windows with 20th-century frames, along with garage doors at the eastern end.

Local climate

White Lion House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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