The Old White Horse

TL 65 NW STETCHWORTH HIGH STREET (West Side)

6/156 The Old White Horse

GV II

House, formerly an inn built in 1905 for the Earl of Ellesmere by C.F.A. Voysey. Free style design. Roughcast render to buttressed brick walls with limestone dressings; flared hipped plain tile roof and attic roofs. Slender iron brackets to gutters. Two tall symmetrical ridge stacks. One storey and attic, L-plan. Rear wing, extending as loggia links stables to south-west forming courtyard. Main facade to north-east of four 'bays'; central 'bays' with facade gable and hipped dormer window to left hand. Entrance originally through recessed open porch with braced wooden posts, recently infilled by small-paned glazed doors and fixed windows. Two attic windows, and three ground floor windows, casements of six-five- and four-leaded lights with plain limestone mullions and architraves. Wall and double gated courtyard entrance to north-east with opposing arched entrance with flared hipped roof. Interior details largely unaltered include staircase, panelling, inglenook hearths and rounded arches to openings. VCH, Vol.VI, p.172. Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.461. A. Service, Edwardian Architecture (see Voysey), 1977.

Listing NGR: TL6400558897