White Lion House

White Lion House is a coaching inn dating from the 15th century, with later additions and alterations. It was closed in 1986 and subsequently converted into six houses. The building is timber-framed and rendered with whitewashed elevations, and has machine tile roofs.

The building is arranged in an irregular plan with three distinct phases of construction. The north part of the building, dating from the 15th century, is two storeys high and has a three-window front. A partly-blocked jettied coach entrance is located on the right-hand side of the ground floor, featuring a bressumer decorated with a continuous arcaded frieze. The jetty is underbuilt on the left side, and contains a 20th-century plate-glass shop front but remains open to the right, underneath a 4-centred arch bearing the legend “posting establishment”. The first floor has two 6/6 unhorned sash windows. To the left of the jetty is a 20th-century top-hung casement with glazing bars, and a half-glazed door within a timber doorcase with a hood. A double 6/6 unhorned sash window sits above the casement. The north part has a gabled roof and a stack on the rear roof slope. A rear outshut is elevated and has a catslide roof.

The remainder of the front elevation is broadly symmetrical, with a four-window range and central double 6-panelled doors in a projecting bay. A plain Doric doorcase features a carved lion passant on the hood. The fenestration consists of double 6/6 unhorned sashes, and one 66:1010:66 unhorned sash. A tripartite 22:66:22 sash window is located on the ground floor either side of the door. A subsidiary late 20th-century door is set within a doorcase to the right of the elevation. A parapet partly conceals the gabled roof, and there are two ridge stacks. A 19th-century three-storey rear block is also present.

The interior of the north part features studwork with heavy scantling. One 4-centred screens passage doorway remains with stylised foliage carving in the spandrels. Plain bridging beams and joists are also present. The roof was replaced around 1700 and features two tiers of staggered butt purlins and collars.