The White Hart Inn

KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8418-8518 (south-east side)

9/198 No. 2 (The White Hart 21.12.67 Inn) GV II

2 houses combined,now a public house. Early C19 and c.1600 respectively, both extended in C19. Timber framed, painted brick and plaster, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. House to left, of T-plan with central stack, early C19, mainly of painted brick. C19 catslide extension to right of rear wing, and late C19 2-storey lean-to extension to left of rear wing, roofed with slate, completing a rectangular plan. 2 storeys and cellar. House to right, single range of 3 bays with central stack, timber framed and plastered, c.1600. C19 lean-to extension to rear, mainly of painted brick, roofed with red clay corrugated tiles. 2 storeys. Both face NW, abut together and are connected internally. House to left, ground floor, 2 late C19 tripartite sashes of 2-4-2 lights; first floor, 4 late C19 sashes of 4 lights and one blind aperture at right end. 2 recessed 6-panel doors, 4 panels glazed, both with simple moulded architraves; that on the right has a pulvinated frieze and moulded pediment. Plain band at first floor. Plaster moulded eaves cornice with bracketed corbels. Roof hipped at left end. To rear, early C19 half-glazed door with 9 lights and crown glass. House to right, ground floor, one early C19 sash of 10 + 10 lights, one C20 replica; first floor, 2 C19 casements. A photograph in RCHM shows it with 4 or 5 truncated octagonal shafts, but now only 2 tubular flues emerge from the roof, behind the ridge. Interior of ground floor much altered. In right house, chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. Wood-burning hearth with replaced mantel beam, brickwork disturbed. RCHM 15.

Listing NGR: TL8594418435