Old White Lion Public House

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SE KING STREET 839-1/16/64 (West side) 27/06/53 No.112 Old White Lion Public House

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Public house. Early C17, with later insertions. Restored mid C20. Flint and brick under pantiled and plain-tiled roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 gabled ranges, one parallel to King Street, the other running down Nottingham Way at right angles. The former of 2 storeys and attic, the latter of 2 storeys. Mid C20 public house facade is a replica of a late C19 facade. First floor with one 3-light and one 4-light mullioned windows. Bell-based gabled roof clad in plain tiles to front slope. External gable-end stack to south rebuilt with wall when adjacent house demolished in 1970s. North gable with a single-light and a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned windows to ground floor, and a 3-light cross casement to each of first and attic floors. Rear wing with 2 renewed pedimented doorways separated by a double sash with 6/6 unhorned glazing bars. A 2-light cross casement to west. First floor lit through two 3-light cross casements and an arched window. Gabled roof with C20 ridge stacks east and west. INTERIOR: cellar with a barrel-vaulted storeroom. Early C17 closed-string staircase in an open well with turned balusters and newels with ball finials. Moulded handrail. Above the stairs is a re-located C16 crenellated wall-plate and under stairs is a carved panel depicting bunches of fruit and foliate devices. Rear wing has on the ground floor small-framed C17 panelling to east end and a C20 brick fireplace within a C17 chimney-piece. Chimney-piece of carved oak. Fluted pilasters rise to overmantel which has 4 reeded and fluted Ionic pilasters framing 3 arcaded panels. The arcading has interlace jambs and arches and further Ionic capitals. 3 plain panels to the cornice. First floor: first-floor door surrounds mainly with wave-moulded jambs terminating in bar and tongue stops. Bridging beams mainly with sunk-quadrant mouldings and bar and tongue stops. West-facing window retains 2 lights of a former 4 and the dividing consoled king mullion. North room with a C20 brick fireplace set within a C17 chimney-piece: inverted bulbous pilasters support a frieze of 3 recessed panels divided by inverted tapering pilasters with flutes. Either side is small-framed C17 panelling. Small room opening to west with complete large-framed early C18 panelling with an egg-and-dart frieze over acanthus consoles. Panelled pilasters at intervals. Passageway to these rooms with small-framed C17 panelling which continues into east room. South-east room with some small-framed panelling and a panelled door with cocks-head hinges. Roof rebuilt.

Listing NGR: TG5265207083