White Lion Hotel

UPTON-UPON-SEVERN HIGH STREET SO 8540 2/36 (east side) 11.8.52 No 21 (White Lion Hotel) GV II Mid C18 painted stucco fronted hotel on earlier core. Fine facade, 3-storey with 3 window main range and one window range, canted, attached to right. Giant fluted pilasters with moulded caps and bases, entablature over with moulded parapet, formerly ornamented with ball-heads. Windows flat-headed with incised voussoirs with upper window voussoirs cutting into architrave of entablature. Glazing bar sashes to 2nd floor and centre 1st floor and tripartite sashes to flanking windows of main range. Centre arched carriage entrance now front door, with large projecting Roman Doric porch surmounted by a lion. South hand section similar but windows tripartite to 2nd floor, palladian 1st floor and 3 light ground floor. Interior and rear much altered. Some timber-framing exposed in party-wall to No 19. Supposedly the "Inn at Upton" of Fielding's Tom Jones.

Listing NGR: SO8519940595