The Old White Lion is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1979. Public house.
The Old White Lion
- WRENN ID
- tall-moulding-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1979
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old White Lion, Bell Street, Princes Risborough
- OS grid reference
- SP 809 033
- Coordinates
- 51.72289, -0.83006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old White Lion is a former public house located on Bell Street in Princes Risborough. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and is constructed of red brick with flat eaves and a slate roof. The building has two storeys and two bays, featuring 5-pane sash windows with finely gauged heads. The central entrance consists of a 4-panelled door topped by a blind rectangular fanlight, all sheltered by a flat wooden hood supported by shaped brackets.
To the right, there is a lower block from the early 19th century, which is colourwashed roughcast with an old tiled roof. This section also has two storeys and one bay, with a 5-pane sash window with a cambered head on the ground floor and a 3-light barred wooden casement window to the left of a half-glazed door set in a 20th-century architrave frame. All windows and doors were renewed around 1980.
Local climate
The Old White Lion sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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