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Date of photo: 2023	Picture source: Steve Turner
The White Lion was situated on High Cross Street.
Grade-II listed in 1984 as the White Lion Hotel is was probably originally 2 early 18th century houses. It is marked on the OS map as Roman Edge House but that represents only the eastern (right) section to just past the first doorway. The remaining section is now Brampton Medical Practice White Lion Surgery and residential apartment. The pub stood empty from 2015 when it closed after a short time as an Indian restaurant. Purchased by a well known local couple in 2017, it was converted to its present layout around 2019-20. The listing informs us it was the White Lion in 1790 and a search of my directories found; 1847 Joseph Armstrong; 1858-1873 John Dodd (& cabinet maker); 1894 James Moffat; 1897 George & Luna Moffat; 1906 Tom A Riddell (& Kings Arms Inn); 1910 Tom A Riddell; 1914 William Spooner.
Steve Turner (July 2023)
Listed building details:
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.
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