Brampton's White Lion Hotel has sold at auction – for tens of thousands of pounds less than the guide price.

The three-storey hotel in High Cross Street, which had traded as the Mr Elelphant restaurant until March this year, was auctioned off last week in Manchester for £155,000.

It was expected that the building – which has a bar and games room, lounge and dining room, kitchen, dry store, beer cellar, private accommodation and eight letting rooms, three with en-suite facilities – would make about £225,000.

The sale, held by Pugh auctioneers at the Etihad Stadium last Thursday September 10 , also saw Little Corby’s only pub, the Haywain Inn, sell for an undisclosed sum.

The pub – a two-storey detached building with residential upper floors and a commercial area of approximately 115sq m – was up for a guide price of £95,000.

Its adjacent 418sq m car park had a guide price of £30,000 to £40,000. Both could be bought individually but they were also offered as combined lots.