The White Hart Hotel

BOSTON

TF3244SE HIGH STREET 716-1/7/71 (North side) 14/02/75 The White Hart Hotel

GV II

Hotel. Mid C18, altered and extended early C19, with further mid C19 alterations. The wing at right-angles to the river was added after 1807 and the construction of the new town bridge (qv). Red brick, stucco, slate roofs. L-plan. EXTERIOR: main front of 3 storeys plus attics, 7 bays with quoins, heavy moulded and dentilled cornice, parapet with pierced ovals. Off-centre elliptical carriage archway with keystone, plain pilasters and entablature. To left a small shop window with moulded surround, cornice and ramped base. To right 2 plain sashes with pedimented moulded surrounds and ramped bases and a recessed doorway. To 1st and 2nd floor 7 plain sashes with moulded surrounds, the upper ones with tabbed sills. To the attic 4 modern dormer windows. The taller added wing is 3-storey, 3-bay in quasi-Jacobean style with balustraded parapet and dentilled cornice. Dentilled entablature to ground floor and deep band between 1st and 2nd floor with roundel and acanthus ornament. The bays to each floor are marked by pilasters, fluted Corinthian to ground floor and Doric with marked entasis above. To ground floor a modern entrance to left and 2 plain sashes to right. To 1st floor, 3 tall full height divided sashes. To 2nd floor 3 semi-circular-headed sashes. All windows have moulded surround, those to the top floor are decorated with roundels. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the original White Hart was demolished early C19 for the New Bridge Street, the present building was previously the "Unicorn".

Listing NGR: TF3270244023