The White Hart

The White Hart is a house, originally a public house, dating from the early 15th century. It has been altered in the 17th and 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed, with plaster rendering and some exposed timber framing, and has a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It comprises a two-bay hall range facing north, with a stack to the rear of the left bay, a two-bay parlour/solar crosswing to the left, and a three-bay service crosswing to the right, featuring an external stack on its return wall. There is a single-storey extension to the left and a single-storey lean-to extension to the right. The left crosswing juts out to the front, with a reproduction bracket and a splayed bay containing a 20th-century half-glazed double door and casement windows. The front has two 20th-century casement windows on the first floor. A 19th-century half-glazed door is situated on the front elevation, accompanied by a painted sign reading ‘Licensed retailer of wines, spirits and beer. Dealer in tobacco’ beneath a shallow hood on scrolled brackets. Exposed curved tension bracing and trenched outside studding are visible on the right return wall. The hall was raised approximately 1.5 metres in the 17th century to align with the heights of the crosswing roofs. The interior features a doorway from the hall to the parlour with a three-centred arched head, exposed studding and display bracing at the ends of the hall, and a late 16th-century inserted floor with chamfered beams and joists. The left crosswing has a complete crownpost roof, with a cross-quadrate crownpost and four-way rising braces, the side braces lap-jointed to the rafters below the collar. The right crosswing has a complete crownpost roof of a different design, with two chamfered crownposts, octagonal in section with step stops, each with two rising braces to the collar purlin and two down-braces to the tiebeam, springing from the crownpost well above the rising braces. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs are present in the wallplates of the crosswings. A rear wing, formerly listed separately, is now listed under a different serial number.