White Horse Inn

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 MARKET STREET 669-1/1/295 (West side) 01/11/72 No.4 White Horse Inn

GV II

Public house. Early C19 and probably earlier. Gault brick, weatherboarded timber framing, slate roofs. Approximate T shaped plan. 2 storeys, attics and cellars. E front elevation: 6 window range, string course between ground and first floor. Bay 4 from S lifted to simple pediment over segment headed 3x4 paned attic sash window, stack behind. Hipped mansard roof with gabled dormer casement windows towards N and S ends. Principal facade windows have stuccoed voussoirs, all except one, sashes with glazing bars, first floor, S-N, two 4x4 panes, three 3x4 panes, one triple sash, 2x4, 2x4, 2x4 with keystoned voussoirs. Ground floor, four 4x4 paned windows with central doorway with similar voussoir overlight and side lights (now blocked), doors, one of 6 flush panels, one of 2 lower flush panels and upper 2x2 paned glazing, window between, glazing bars, 7x3 panes. Rear W elevation: large timber-framed and weatherboarded central wing to W. Mansard roof with ramped dormer window to S with three 2x2 paned casement windows. Scattered windows to side walls. To S, 2-storey timber-framed and plastered lean-to with large red brick stack at roof junction, further single storeyed lean-to continues to S end of building, both have C20 pargetting. Other features include a first floor gabled projection on simple posts behind 2-storeyed addition and a C20 weatherboarded lean-to porch to plain back door, also, 2 and 3-light casement windows on ground and first floor of single and 2-storeyed lean-tos. S end elevation: gault brick with hip of mansard roof. Shallow bay window on ground and first floor, both with sashes, 2x4, 4x4, 2x4 panes, string course between windows. Attic sash window 4x4 panes. Brick wall contiuned to W to cover end of rear lean-to, containing small C19 ground floor casement window. N end elevation: similar to S but simpler with single ground floor fixed window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes. The lack of strict symmetry of the front, together with the large rear red brick stack suggests an earlier origin, most probably an amalgamation of at least 2 units.

Listing NGR: TL5389438464