The White Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Public house.

The White Lion Public House

WRENN ID
stark-pediment-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
The White Lion Public House, West Allington, Bridport
OS grid reference
SY 462 930
Coordinates
50.73424, -2.76301
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White Lion Public House is an 18th-century building constructed of colour-washed brick with a pitched tile roof and red brick stacks. It stands two storeys high with attics. The front features two ranges of cased sash windows with glazing bars, along with a 19th-century public house window on the ground floor. There is a door topped with a moulded cornice. The elevation facing the river has three ranges of cased sash windows with glazing bars and two ranges of casement windows with glazing bars. Additionally, there are two flat-topped attic dormers with casement windows.

Local climate

The White Lion Public House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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