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Latitude: 52.3204 / 52°19'13"N
Longitude: 1.1462 / 1°8'46"E
OS Eastings: 614519
OS Northings: 273810
OS Grid: TM145738
Mapcode National: GBR TJL.GM8
Mapcode Global: VHL9F.TYB0
Plus Code: 9F4384CW+5F
Entry Name: White Lion House
Listing Date: 15 June 1951
Last Amended: 12 February 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1316537
English Heritage Legacy ID: 468252
ID on this website: 101316537
Location: Eye, Mid Suffolk, IP23
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Eye
Built-Up Area: Eye (Mid Suffolk)
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Eye St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: House
EYE
TM1473 BROAD STREET
585-1/7/21 (East side)
15/06/51 White Lion House
(Formerly Listed as:
BROAD STREET
(East side)
White Lion Hotel)
II
Formerly known as: White Lion Hotel, premises occupied by EJ
Jones and by Barrett Jenkins BROAD STREET.
Coaching Inn. C15 with additions and alterations, closed 1986
and converted to 6 houses. Rendered and whitewashed timber
frame. Machine tile roofs. Irregular plan in 3 distinct
builds.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. C15 north part of 2 storeys in 3-window
range. Ground floor has to right a partly-blocked jettied
coach entrance with a bressumer decorated with continuous
arcaded frieze. The jetty underbuilt to left side with a C20
plate-glass shop front, but remains open to right under a
4-centred arch bearing legend: posting establishment. Two 6/6
unhorned sashes to first floor. Left of the jetty is a C20
ground-floor top-hung casement with glazing bars and a
half-glazed door to extreme left within a timber doorcase with
hood. Double 6/6 unhorned sash above. Gabled roof. Stack on
rear roof slope. Rear consists of an elevated outshut under
catslide roof.
Remainder of elevation broadly symmetrical: 4-window range;
central 6-panelled double-leaf doors in projecting bay. Plain
Doric doorcase with a carved lion passant on hood.
Fenestration of double 6/6 unhorned sashes and one
66:1010:66 unhorned sash. One tripartite 22:66:22 sash
to ground floor either side of door. Subsidiary late C20 door
within doorcase to right of elevation. Parapet partly conceals
gabled roof. 2 ridge stacks. C19 3-storey rear block.
INTERIOR: north part with studwork of heavy scantling. One
4-centred screens passage doorway remains with stylised
foliage carving in spandrels. Plain bridging beams and joists.
Roof replaced c1700: two tiers of staggered butt purlins and
collars.
(Paine C: The History of Eye: Diss: 1993-: 43-50).
Listing NGR: TM1451973810
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