White Lion Hotel 21, Upton Upon Severn
Description: White Lion Hotel 21
Grade: II
Date Listed: 11 August 1952
English Heritage Building ID: 423985
OS Grid Reference: SO8519940595
OS Grid Coordinates: 385199, 240595
Latitude/Longitude: 52.0635, -2.2173
Location: 21 High Street, Upton Upon Severn, Worcestershire WR8 0HJ
Locality: Upton Upon Severn
Local Authority: Malvern Hills
County: Worcestershire
Country: England
Postcode: WR8 0HJ
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Listing Text
UPTON-UPON-SEVERN HIGH STREET
SO 8540
2/36 (east side)
11.8.52 No 21
(White Lion Hotel)
GV
II
Mid C18 painted stucco fronted hotel on earlier core. Fine facade, 3-storey with
3 window main range and one window range, canted, attached to right. Giant fluted
pilasters with moulded caps and bases, entablature over with moulded parapet, formerly
ornamented with ball-heads. Windows flat-headed with incised voussoirs with upper
window voussoirs cutting into architrave of entablature. Glazing bar sashes to
2nd floor and centre 1st floor and tripartite sashes to flanking windows of main
range. Centre arched carriage entrance now front door, with large projecting Roman
Doric porch surmounted by a lion. South hand section similar but windows tripartite
to 2nd floor, palladian 1st floor and 3 light ground floor. Interior and rear much
altered. Some timber-framing exposed in party-wall to No 19. Supposedly the "Inn at
Upton" of Fielding's Tom Jones.
Listing NGR: SO8519940595
Source: English Heritage
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