The White Horse Public House

HERTFORD

TL3212SE CASTLE STREET 817-1/20/27 (South side) 12/04/73 Nos.31, 33 AND 35 The White Horse Public House (Nos.31 and 33)

GV II

3 houses, Nos 31 & 33 now public house. C16 and C17, altered C19, extended 1992-3. Timber-framed and roughcast plastered, rear weatherboarded above brick ground floor. Welsh slated and old tiled (rear) roofs, central yellow brick chimneystack, smaller red brick stack to right. No.33 (now including former No.31) has lobby entry plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has three 18 pane Yorkshire sash windows, with architrave surrounds and continuous fascia band, with weatherboard hood on curved brackets. Ground floor has 3 doors, 4 panel, upper 2 glazed, at left and centre, modern hardwood half-glazed at right, all under flat hoods on cut profiled brackets. INTERIOR: exposed studwork, and reclaimed post introduced during 1992-3 refurbishment, simple modern bar counters. First floor shows exposed brickwork of chimney on party wall to No.35 cutting through tie beam, and vertical studs with primary bracing, bressumer over fireplace in west room chamfered with tongue stop. East room has exposed studwork for a gabled outshut possibly older than main structure, and now leads into modern rear extension. Butt purlin roof, halved and pegged rafters, formerly ceiled at collar level, roof over front range not accessible.

Listing NGR: TL3250812370