White Horse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1950. Inn. 10 related planning applications.
White Horse Inn
- WRENN ID
- salt-rubble-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1950
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- White Horse Inn, 234, Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford, SG14 2LB
- OS grid reference
- TL 306 120
- Coordinates
- 51.79172, -0.10652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Horse Inn is a house that has been converted into a hotel and restaurant. It dates back to the 16th century, with a front that was remodeled in the 18th century. The building features a timber frame, with parts plastered and weatherboarded at the rear, and is finished in colourwashed brick. It has hipped roofs covered with old tiles and two rebuilt red brick chimneys along the ridge.
The exterior includes a three-bay center with two projecting three-light wood mullioned casement windows, both featuring old lead quarries, one in each wing. The center has three two-light casements, with the central one being lattice leaded, and there is a deep plat band at the first-floor level. On the ground floor, there are two three-light 20th-century wood casement windows with small panes, each topped by a semicircular arch. The center features two recessed 12-pane sashes and a central half-glazed door set in a broad late 16th-century moulded surround with a flat head. The late 18th-century outer surround has panelled pilasters and a flat door hood supported by cut brackets.
The right flank (north) elevation has paired late 18th-century 12-pane sashes on the first and ground floors, with the ground floor sashes located under a broad segmental brick arch. There is a single sash to the right, and the right end bay has a plastered first floor with a small two-light wood casement. The ground floor is weatherboarded and features a small paned two-light wood casement and a half-glazed door. A cellar drop is located lower left against the end of the brick casing of the remainder of the elevation.
Inside, the ground floor has been opened up into a single bar and dining area, which is divided by the chimneys. The north wing contains a central lateral chamfered and tongue-stopped beam, along with a remnant of a post and door jamb beside the fireplace. The exposed beams in the main bar area mostly appear to have been reset, with a cased steel joist at the south end where a wall was removed to provide access to a late 20th-century extension. The first floor features ceilings at tie beam level and shows indications of the original gabled roof at the front, although the upper roof is not accessible for inspection.
Local climate
White Horse Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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