Listed Building record MDO3609 - White Lion Inn, High Street, Bourton

A public house occupying a row of three two-storey houses, all built around 1800. The walls are of coursed rubble and the roof is slate. To the rear is an older cottage of circa 1750 with a pantile roof.

ST 77863093. The White Lion Inn. Of 2 storeys it comprises a row of 3 former houses of ca. 1800 and at the back, a cottage of ca. 1750. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 5 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(22) THE WHITE LION INN (77863093), of two storeys, comprises a row of three former houses of c.1800 and. At the back, a cottage of c.1750. The walls are of coursed rubble and the roofs are slate covered. The southernmost house of the row has a symmetrical E. front of three bays with a central doorway; on the N. is a pair of two-bay houses. The cottage of 1750 stands adjacent to that first mentioned, on the N.W.; it is roofed with pantiles.'

<2> Department of the Environment, 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of Ashmore, Bourton, Buckhorn Weston, Cann, Compton Abbas, Gillingham, Kington Magna, Melbury Abbas, Motcombe and Silton) (Scheduling record). SDO16468.

<3> Historic England, NRHE Excavation Index, 977428 (Digital archive). SDO16497.

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