Old White Lion Public House

The Old White Lion is a public house located in Great Yarmouth, dating to the early 17th century, with later additions and a mid-20th century restoration. It comprises two gabled ranges, one parallel to King Street and another running down Nottingham Way at a right angle. The front facade facing King Street is a replica of a late 19th-century design.

The exterior is constructed of flint and brick, featuring pantiled and plain-tiled roofs. The King Street range is two storeys and has an attic, while the Nottingham Way range is two storeys high. The first floor of the King Street range has a three-light and a four-light mullioned window. The north gable displays a single-light and a three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window on the ground floor, with a three-light cross casement on both the first and attic floors. A rebuilt external gable-end stack is present on the south side. The rear wing incorporates two renewed, pedimented doorways, separated by a double sash window with six-over-six unhorned glazing bars, and a two-light cross casement. The first floor of the rear wing is lit by two three-light cross casements and an arched window, with 20th-century ridge stacks located to the east and west.

The interior includes a cellar with a barrel-vaulted storeroom. A notable feature is an early 17th-century closed-string staircase in an open well, featuring turned balusters, newels with ball finials, and a moulded handrail. Above the stairs is a re-located 16th-century crenellated wall-plate, and beneath the stairs, a carved panel depicting bunches of fruit and foliate devices. The rear wing’s ground floor retains small-framed 17th-century panelling to the east end, alongside a 20th-century brick fireplace within a 17th-century chimney-piece which comprises of carved oak; fluted pilasters rise to an overmantel with reeded and fluted Ionic pilasters framing three arcaded panels, interlace jambs, arches, additional Ionic capitals, and three plain panels to the cornice.

On the first floor, door surrounds are characterized by wave-moulded jambs terminating in bar and tongue stops. Bridging beams have sunk-quadrant mouldings with bar and tongue stops. One west-facing window retains two lights of what was originally a four-light window, with a consoled king mullion. A north room features a 20th-century brick fireplace set within a 17th-century chimney-piece, with inverted bulbous pilasters supporting a frieze of recessed panels. A small room to the west contains complete large-framed early 18th-century panelling with an egg-and-dart frieze over acanthus consoles, panelled pilasters, and small-framed 17th-century panelling continuing into an east room. A south-east room has some small-framed panelling and a panelled door with cocks-head hinges. The roof has been rebuilt.