White Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Public house. 14 related planning applications.
White Horse Inn
- WRENN ID
- night-eave-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- White Horse Inn, 4, Market Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1HZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 538 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02326, 0.24155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Horse Inn is a public house dating from the early 19th century, with evidence of earlier origins. It is constructed of gault brick, with some timber framing and weatherboarding, and has slate roofs. The building has an approximate T-shaped plan, extending over two storeys with attics and cellars.
The east front elevation has a six-window range and a string course separating the ground and first floors. The fourth bay from the south has a simple pediment above a segment-headed attic sash window. A hipped mansard roof features dormer casement windows at the north and south ends. The principal facade has windows with stuccoed voussoirs; most are sashes with glazing bars. The first floor windows are predominantly 4x4 or 3x4 panes, except for a triple sash window with 2x4, 2x4, and 2x4 panes. The ground floor features four 4x4-paned windows and a central doorway with a similar voussoir overlight and side lights (now blocked). The doors are a combination of six-panel and two-panel lower doors with upper 2x2-paned glazing. A window between the doors has 7x3 panes.
The rear west elevation has a large timber-framed and weatherboarded central wing. A mansard roof features a ramped dormer window to the south, with three 2x2-paned casement windows. Scattered windows are found on the side walls. To the south, a two-storey timber-framed and plastered lean-to has a large red brick stack. A further single-storeyed lean-to continues to the south end of the building, both featuring 20th-century pargetting. Another feature is a first-floor gabled projection on simple posts, behind a two-storeyed addition, and a 20th-century weatherboarded lean-to porch to a plain back door. There are also 2 and 3-light casement windows on the ground and first floors of the lean-tos.
The south end has a gault brick facade with a hip to the mansard roof. A shallow bay window is present on the ground and first floor, both with sashes of 2x4, 4x4, and 2x4 panes, separated by a string course. The attic has a 4x4-paned sash window. A brick wall extends west, concealing the end of the rear lean-to, and incorporates a small 19th-century ground floor casement window. The north end is similar to the south but simpler, featuring a single ground floor fixed window with 4x4-paned glazing.
The lack of strict symmetry on the front and the prominent rear red brick stack suggests an earlier origin, likely the amalgamation of at least two separate units.
Local climate
White Horse Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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.
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- Related listed building consents — 14 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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