List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: WHITE LION INN
List Entry Number: 1205432
Location
19,20 AND 21, HENLEY STREET
WHITE LION INN
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Warwickshire
District: Stratford-on-Avon
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Stratford-upon-Avon
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 04-Apr-1994
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 366270
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP2055SW HENLEY STREET
604-1/8/105 (North East side)
Nos.19, 20 AND 21
GV II
Part of White Lion Inn, now shops. C17 or early C18 with early
C19 and c1900 alterations. Brick with internal timber-frame
and stuccoed front with applied timber-frame decoration; steep
tile roof with brick cross-axial stack and small stack to
rear. 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. Ground floor has 3
shop fronts under pentice. 1st floor has irregularly spaced
windows with C19 cross-casements; attic has 2 gables with
2-light C19 casements. Hipped ends of gabled rear wings
visible; stack has 3 square shafts and moulded cap. Rear has 2
gabled wings, one to left with straight parapet and windows
with rubbed brick flat arches, some blocked. INTERIOR:
chamfered beams, and some exposed framing to No.21; roof noted
as having heavy roof trusses with tie beams and collars, wind
braces. The last remaining section of The White Lion: an
important C18 and C19 coaching inn. John Payton, the owner,
was influential in the organisation of the 1769 Shakespeare
Jubilee, and the development of tourism in Stratford.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 39; Fogg N: Stratford-upon-Avon:
Portrait of a Town: Chichester: 1986-: 91, 100, 115).
Listing NGR: SP2000955157
Selected Sources
Books and journalsBearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 39
Fogg, N, Stratford Upon Avon Portrait of a Town, (1986), 91 100 105
Map
National Grid Reference: SP 20009 55157
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