The White Hart Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1978. A Medieval Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The White Hart Inn
- WRENN ID
- spare-spire-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1978
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The White Hart Inn, High Street, Halstead, CO9 2AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 814 306
- Coordinates
- 51.94487, 0.63852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Hart Inn is a 15th-century hall with cross wings, constructed from timber framing and plaster, with some areas featuring brick cladding. The hall's roof was raised in the 16th century, and an inserted floor was added. The building has two storeys and tiled roofs, with the upper storey of the cross wings projecting and gabled. It underwent extensive alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The windows are double hung sash with glazing bars, and there is a central two-storey bay window topped with a semi-hexagonal roof. The inn features very fine bargeboards from around 1600, intricately carved with a vine motif. The bases of the apex finials are of a similar date, although the eaves pendants are modern. At the rear, there is a jettied wing. Inside, much of the original frame remains, including crown post roofs.
Local climate
The White Hart Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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