White Lion Hotel

The White Lion Hotel is a mid-18th century hotel with a painted stucco front, built on an earlier structure, located on the east side of High Street in Upton-upon-Severn. It features an impressive three-storey facade with a main range of three windows and a canted one-window range attached to the right. The facade is adorned with giant fluted pilasters that have moulded caps and bases, and an entablature above with a moulded parapet that was once decorated with ball-heads. The windows are flat-headed, with incised voussoirs, and the upper window voussoirs extend into the architrave of the entablature. The second floor has glazing bar sashes, the centre of the first floor has a glazing bar sash, and the flanking windows of the main range feature tripartite sashes. The central arched carriage entrance now serves as the front door and is topped by a large projecting Roman Doric porch, which is surmounted by a lion. The southern section of the building is similar, but its windows include tripartite sashes on the second floor, a Palladian window on the first floor, and a three-light window on the ground floor. The interior and rear of the building have been significantly altered, although some timber framing is exposed in the party wall to No 19. The hotel is believed to be the "Inn at Upton" mentioned in Fielding's "Tom Jones."