White Lion Hotel

ALDEBURGH

TM4656 MARKET CROSS PLACE 837-1/4/34 (West side) 27/02/50 Nos.15 AND 16 White Lion Hotel

GV II

Inn and two houses; now public house and hotel. C17 inn refronted c1840 and extended into mid and early C19 houses to south in C19 and C20: C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with slate roofs, some C20 asbestos slate. EXTERIOR: original inn has 3-storey front with irregular fenestration. Polygonal angle turrets rise above crenellated parapet. Ground floor lit by two tripartite sashes with glazing bars of 2/2, 6/6, 2/2 formation, and a fixed 12-pane window to either side. First floor has two taller tripartite windows with 3/6, 6/9, 3/6 sashes: second floor, three 8/8 unhorned sashes. Tripartite windows on ground and first floors have continuous hoodmoulds. Dentilled eaves cornice. Internal gable-end stack to north. Mid C19 central block has 3 storeys, 4 bays, those to first and second floors blind in the third bay. Double-leaf panelled door in third bay set behind portico porch on two unfluted columns. Ground and first-floor sashes all unhorned have 8/8 glazing bars; on second floor, three 4/8 unhorned sashes. Dentil eaves cornice. Internal gable end stack to north and ridge stack left of centre. South house c1820 has 2-storey 4-window front. Plain doorway at left end: to right on ground floor single sashes alternate with tripartite horned sashes, all without glazing bars. Four first-floor tripartite sashes set in two groups of two: 2/2, 6/6, 2/2 glazing bars. Dentil eaves cornice. Internal gable-end stack to south. INTERIOR: north block opened out on ground floor to form dining room: at north end is a C17 rendered brick fireplace under 4-centred arch with dragons carved in relief in spandrels. Reeded and fluted Ionic pilasters right and left support strapwork frieze and a low-relief gadrooned cornice. Overmantel with central arcaded panel flanked by one geometric panel either side, each defined by pilasters, which have high-relief carving of 2 bacchanalian male figures and 2 female figures. Upper cornice with strapwork. Small-framed panelling to room, most of which is not in situ. Room in ground floor of centre block with C19 fielded panelling and an egg-and-dart frieze. Ballroom at south end of hotel has C19 panelling and pilasters. Staircase is

open-stringed, with turned balusters and foliate wreathed tread ends.

Listing NGR: TM4653856908