The White Lion Public House (On Corner Of Winters Lane)

TL 2826 WALKERN HIGH STREET (east side)

7/1 No 31 (The White Lion PH) 19.10.51 (on corner of Winters Lane) (formerly listed as the White Lion Inn)

GV II

Inn. C16, altered in late Cl7. Timber frame on brick base, roughcast with weatherboarding to ends, rear and apron to S wing. Red brick facing to centre chequered with black headers. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, long H-plan inn facing W, with projecting gabled crosswings at each end, 6-windows long brick facade in centre, and wide projecting porch next the S wing. The central part has a large central chimney a third from S end, and an enclosed rear gallery linking the wings. Smaller chimney with 2 diagonal square shafts (rebuilt) at N end of centre. C19 chimney inserted on N side of N wing. One and a half storeys plastered extension to rear gabled stair projection. On the W front the plastered gabled wings each have wavy C19 bargeboards with pendants at apex and foot and a flush 3-light casement window to each floor. The plastered porch has a C19 wide oak Tudor arch with 2 chamfered orders and octagonal shafts, under a moulded label. Seats flank a battened door. The brick facade has a plinth, floorband, moulded eaves cornice, segmental arches to lower windows, and slightly recessed Cl7 cross windows with wooden opening lights. The 1st and 5th windows from N are painted in plastered recesses (the 1st ground floor window has been opened up with a matching cross window). Fine doorcase under 3rd window. 6-panel flush beaded door in moulded surround with full entablature on heavy plain trusses. Swelled frieze and dentilled cornice breaking forward over trusses under a triangular pediment. Interior has exposed chamfered beams and exposed close-studding in 1st floor of 2-bay S wing. Shield-shaped corbel supports floor beam in 2-bay N wing. Ovolo-moulded 2-light blocked windows in upper floor of S wall of S wing. Trimmer suggests a stair at E end of S service wing, which has lower floor levels. (RCHM (1911) 225: Pevsner (1977) 373).

Listing NGR: TL2895426403