A White Lion on the hotel portico, The White Lion Hotel, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire.
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greysman
N 52° 03.813 W 002° 13.044
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This sad-looking White Lion on the portico roof of this old hotel has a golden mane...
Waymark Code: WMDB2V
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/17/2011
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...and he has his left front paw on a golden ball.
This is a grade II listed building on the High Street in Upton-upon-Severn. It is a mid C18th painted stucco-fronted, hotel on a 500year-old core. The front facade is fine, of three-storeys having a three window main range and a one window side range canted and attached at the right. Between each bay there are full-height fluted pilasters with moulded caps and bases, an entablature over all with moulded parapet, formerly ornamented with ball-heads. The windows in the main range are flat-headed with incised voussoirs with upper window voussoirs cutting into the architrave of the entablature. There are glazing bar sashes to the 2nd floor and centre 1st floor and tripartite sashes to the flanking windows of the main range. The former central arched carriage entrance is now the front door and has a large projecting Roman Doric porch surmounted by the white lion. The southern section is similar but windows are tripartite to the 2nd floor, palladian to the 1st floor and three light to the ground floor. The interior and rear are much altered. There is some timber-framing exposed in the party-wall to No 19, to the left and many other old beams showing. It was supposedly the "Inn at Upton" in Fielding's 'Tom Jones'.
In 2010 the hoteliers celebrated the hotel's 500th birthday with special parties, menus, and champagne.
For further hotel information see: White Lion Hotel