White Horse Public House

The White Horse Public House, located at No. 15 High Street in Great Dunmow, is a former public house dating from the early 14th century and early 19th century. It is a two-storey building that is timber framed and plastered, featuring a gabled peg tile roof at the front. The rear of the building has two gabled wings and a large single-storey extension also covered with a peg tile roof.

The front elevation facing High Street includes three gabled dormers with casement windows that have scalloped bargeboards and 19th-century crested ridge tiles. On the first floor, there are four small pane casement windows from the 20th century. The entrance features an off-centre early 19th-century doorcase with fluted half columns, a flat hood, and a parallel frieze. Surrounding the door is a shopfront-like arrangement with seven Doric pilasters that enclose 20th-century small pane windows.

The building's former jetty is indicated by a curved, soffitted overhang on the south end leading to an alleyway. Originally, there were two crosswings, with the southern one being jettied on the south, east, and west sides, featuring curved dragon posts that are partly exposed. The roof structure is notable for its unusual crown post design, which includes a jowled crown post and down braces. The southern ground floor wall exhibits thick multiple bracing. The northern crosswing is likely the remains of a pair of 14th-century shops and has a soot-blackened crown post of early 14th-century style, with a chamfered post, thick straight braces, down bracing to the tie beam, and a splayed scarf joint. The roof at the front was rebuilt in the early 19th century.