White Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1974. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
White Lion Inn
- WRENN ID
- crooked-iron-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- White Lion Inn, High Street, Bridgwater, TA6 3BG
- OS grid reference
- ST 297 370
- Coordinates
- 51.12796, -3.00547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Lion Inn is a public house dating from the 17th century, which was remodeled in the early 19th century. It is constructed of painted brick and features a pantile roof. The building has a single-depth plan that has been extended to a double-depth plan, standing two storeys high with an attic and a two-window range.
There are two raking dormers behind a parapet, and recessed panels above flat gauged brick arches that support 20th-century horned 8/8-pane sash windows. On the ground floor, panelled pilasters flank a slightly right-of-centre door, which is accompanied by a fascia with moulded consoles on either side. This area also features large 20th-century three-light windows with small panes. A 20th-century door at the rear is slightly left of centre, suggesting a possible former two-unit through-passage layout. The building is flanked on both floors by 20th-century horned 8/8-pane sash windows, with timber lintels on the first floor and slightly cambered brick arches on the ground floor.
Inside, there is a substantial chamfered cross-beam to the left of the door. The central former rear wall is approximately 1.5 meters thick and has been broken through to the right, where there was likely an open fireplace, as the room above has a boarded-up chimney breast above and slightly to the left of it. The attic is plastered, but the rough purlins are exposed and painted.
Local climate
White Lion Inn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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