Latitude: 51.6412 / 51°38'28"N
Longitude: -2.6765 / 2°40'35"W
OS Eastings: 353282
OS Northings: 193821
OS Grid: ST532938
Mapcode National: GBR JM.7TQ4
Mapcode Global: VH87T.K0DN
Plus Code: 9C3VJ8RF+F9
Entry Name: White Lion Inn
Listing Date: 4 July 1966
Last Amended: 12 November 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2539
Building Class: Commercial
Also known as: White Lion
White Lion, Chepstow
ID on this website: 300002539
C17, first written record 1644, altered in C19. Also formerly known as The Magpie and Pye Corner, after the original name of the square it fronts. Photograph c 1900 shows the right unit central doorway with C19 shopfront to right and a wider recessed entrance to side left. The left unit has moulded doorways either side of a shopwindow.
Inn on a corner site in two units. Walls are rendered. Main range has steep-pitched pantile roof with brick end stack. Two storeys. 3-window range of 8-pane sashes in reveals. Ground floor has at left a square-headed carriage entrance with double doors and at right a frosted glass bar window; central entrance with bracketed doorcase with overlight and enriched pilasters, fascia and deep moulded cornice. Cross wing to left has gable end facade, a slate roof, scored render and a single window range of later casement windows: 2-light to top floor and 4-light to first floor; 3-light fixed bar window with doorways with double doors each side, overall fascia with cornice on panelled pilasters. Incorporated into east wall and bordering the west side of the back yard is a section of the Port Wall, separately listed
Left unit retains one chamfered and stopped beam and a part flagged floor.
Listed as an historic inn at the centre of the continuous listed range of upper Bank Street. Group value also with the towngate range and the upper part of High Street.
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