The White Horse Public House

The White Horse Public House, located at Nos. 31 and 33 Castle Street in Hertford, is a building that originally comprised three houses from the 16th and 17th centuries. It underwent alterations in the 19th century and was extended in 1992-1993. The structure features a timber frame with roughcast plastering, while the rear is weatherboarded above a brick ground floor. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate and old tiles, with a central yellow brick chimney stack and a smaller red brick stack to the right.

The exterior is two storeys high. The first floor has three 18-pane Yorkshire sash windows, each with architrave surrounds and a continuous fascia band, topped with a weatherboard hood supported by curved brackets. The ground floor includes three doors: two four-panel doors with glazed upper sections on the left and center, and a modern hardwood half-glazed door on the right, all sheltered by flat hoods on cut profiled brackets.

Inside, the building features exposed studwork and a reclaimed post added during the 1992-1993 refurbishment, along with simple modern bar counters. The first floor reveals exposed brickwork of the chimney on the party wall to No. 35, which cuts through a tie beam, as well as vertical studs with primary bracing and a bressumer over the fireplace in the west room, which is chamfered with a tongue stop. The east room displays exposed studwork for a gabled outshut that may be older than the main structure and connects to a modern rear extension. The roof has butt purlins and halved, pegged rafters, and was formerly ceiled at collar level, though the roof over the front range is not accessible.