White Lion, Stretham

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Date of photo: 1890	Picture source: Leo Adamson


The White Lion was situated at 46 High Street. This grade-II listed pub is now in residential use.

The building is now my mother's house, and the above photo of it hangs on the wall. Unfortunately, I don't know when the White Lion closed, but I would say some years before 1980, when my parents bought the place, as by then it was more or less derelict. Judging by what was left, the pub was a 'Tom & Jerry shop' (a mini-pub that sprang up everywhere after the licencing law was liberalised in 1830 - Tom & Jerry were proverbial Regency revellers from an 1820 novel by Pierce Egan) crammed into what is now one downstairs room (to the left of the door in the picture).
Leo Adamson (January 2021)

Listed building details:
House, formerly White Lion PH. Circa 1600, renovated late C20. Timber-framed, plaster rendered on plinth with plain tiled roof, hipped at the south end. Original ridge stack of clunch rubble with local brick to upper courses. Single range plan of three bays including the narrower entry and chimney bay. Two storeys and attic. Three first floor modern wood casements and similar ground floor windows on either side of lobby entry doorway. In the rear wall at first floor an original three-light diamond mullion casement. Interior: Plan of two rooms on either side of the chimney bay. Back to back inglenook hearths. Substantial scantling to wall and ceiling frames. Stop chamfered main beams transversal to the range and carried on prick posts which are continuous from sole plate to wall plate and form an intermediate truss without tiebeams. The prick posts in the room at the south end, possibly originally a parlour, have more elaborate moulding. Flight of brick steps to first floor on north side of stack. Arch braced tiebeams, and main posts with long jowled heads. Clasped side purlin roof with paired wind bracing. The ceiling frame with its transversal main beams carried on moulded brick posts, arch braced tiebeams and long jowled post heads are similar to those of the Mansion House, Covenay (q.v.).


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