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White Lion Hotel, Brampton
White Lion Hotel
locality:-   Brampton
civil parish:-   Brampton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY53036113
1Km square:-   NY5361
10Km square:-   NY56


photograph
BMM71.jpg  Innsign, a lion.
(taken 11.8.2006)  
photograph
BMM70.jpg (taken 11.8.2006)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  White Lion Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WHITE LION HOTEL / / HIGH CROSS STREET / BRAMPTON / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77827 / NY5303261137"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hotel, probably originally 2 houses. Early C18, with mid-C19 alterations and additions. Painted incised stucco walls, stone dressings, Welsh slate roof with tile ridge and gabled dormers with bargeboards and finials, yellow brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 5 bays. C19 4-panel door has plain surround with moulded cornice: blocked entrance between windows left. Replacement casements with glazing bars have plain stone surrounds. Probably originally 2 storeys and increased in height and windows altered in mid-C19. Was The White Lion in 1790, see Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland, Antiquarian &Archaeological Society, lxxiii, p.307."


photograph
BUZ47.jpg  New innsign, a lion.
(taken 22.7.2011)  

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