The White Hart Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. Public house. 7 related planning applications.
The White Hart Public House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-corbel-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The White Hart Public House, Northbridge Street, Shefford, SG17 5DH
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 391
- Coordinates
- 52.0389, -0.33371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Hart Public House is a public house dating from around 1600, which was reworked in the early and mid 19th century. It features red brick refronting on a timber-framed structure, with a colourwashed brick block on the left-hand side and clay tile roofs. The main block has four bays and was raised to three storeys during the refronting. The left-hand block is two storeys high.
The main block includes an off-centre, three-storeyed projecting bay. To the left of this bay is a flat-roofed porch supported by moulded square section piers, which shelters part-glazed double doors. There is a carriage entrance to the right-hand bay. All windows, including two on the ground floor and four each on the first and second floors, have slightly cambered gauged brick heads. The first and second floor windows are sashes, while the ground floor windows are tripartite, featuring slightly bowed central lights and leaded top lights. A parapet conceals the original roofline.
In the left-hand block, there is one sash window on each floor, with the ground floor window being larger and having a cambered head. There is also a doorway on the right-hand side with a flat hood.
Local climate
The White Hart Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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