White Horse Public House

TL 6221 GREAT DUNMOW HIGH STREET (E side) 8/30 White Horse Public 24.3.81 House - No. 15

GV II*

Former Public House, early C14 and early C19. Two storey, timber framed and plastered with gabled peg tile roof on front. Rear shows 2 gabled wings and large, single storey, peg tile roofed rear extension. Front to High Street has 3 gabled dormers with casements with scalloped bargeboards and C19 crested ridge tiles. 1st floor has 4 small pane C20 casements. Off-centre early C19 doorcase with fluted half columns, flat hood and parallel frieze. Surrounding this, a shopfront like arrangement with 7 Doric pilasters enclosing C20 small panes windows. Former jetty indicated by curved, soffitted overhang on S end to alleyway. Formerly 2 crosswings, the one to the S being jettied on S,E and W sides with curved dragonposts partly exposed. Unusual crown post roof with jowled crown post and down braces. Thick multiple bracing on S ground floor wall. N crosswing is probably former pair of C14 shops and has soot blackened crown post of E C14 form with chamfered post, thick straightish braces, down bracing to tie beam and splayed scarf joint. Roof rebuilt at front in early C19. (RCHM 17.)

Listing NGR: TL6277221964