The White Hart Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Public house.
The White Hart Inn
- WRENN ID
- lost-remnant-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Hart Inn is a public house formed from two combined houses, dating from the early 19th century and around 1600, with both having been extended in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame with painted brick and plaster, topped with handmade red plain tiles. The left house is of T-plan with a central stack and is primarily constructed of painted brick, featuring a 19th-century catslide extension to the right of the rear wing and a late 19th-century two-storey lean-to extension to the left, which is roofed with slate, creating a rectangular plan. The building has two storeys and a cellar.
The right house is a single range of three bays with a central stack, constructed of timber framing and plaster, dating from around 1600. It has a 19th-century lean-to extension at the rear, mainly of painted brick and roofed with red clay corrugated tiles, and also has two storeys. Both sections face northwest, are joined together, and have internal connections.
On the ground floor of the left house, there are two late 19th-century tripartite sash windows with 2-4-2 lights, while the first floor features four late 19th-century sashes of four lights and one blind aperture at the right end. There are two recessed six-panel doors, with four panels glazed, both framed by simple moulded architraves; the right door has a pulvinated frieze and a moulded pediment. A plain band runs along the first floor, and there is a plaster moulded eaves cornice with bracketed corbels. The roof is hipped at the left end. At the rear, there is an early 19th-century half-glazed door with nine lights and crown glass.
In the right house, the ground floor features one early 19th-century sash window with 10 + 10 lights and one 20th-century replica; the first floor has two 19th-century casements. A photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (RCHM) shows it with four or five truncated octagonal shafts, but currently, only two tubular flues emerge from the roof behind the ridge. The interior of the ground floor has been much altered, with the right house displaying chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and a wood-burning hearth with a replaced mantel beam and disturbed brickwork.
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