White Hart House, and Number 89 is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House.
White Hart House, and Number 89
- WRENN ID
- tilted-cobble-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Hart House, and Number 89, 87 89, High Street, Buntingford, SG9 9AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 361 296
- Coordinates
- 51.94905, -0.02067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Hart House and Number 89 is a building that was once The White Hart Inn and is now divided into two houses. The northern crosswing, which is Number 89, dates from the 17th century or earlier, while the rest of the structure is from the 19th century. The northern wing features a timber frame on a painted brick sill, with roughcast and applied half-timbering on the front above the jetty. The ground floor is made of red brick, and the upper part is half-timbered. The house has steep old red tile roofs and is designed in an H-plan, with two storeys facing east. The lower northern crosswing is complemented by a central chimney located a third of the way from the northern end and a gabled, jettied southern wing.
Each house has two windows on each floor and a door leading into the middle section next to the crosswing. Number 87 features 19th-century three-light mullioned and transomed flush casement windows in each gable and flanking the door. Number 89 has a similar two-light window to the left of its door, along with a canted brick bay window from the early 18th century, which has leaded glazing and is situated under the high jetty of the northern wing. This wing also displays heavy bull-nosed joists and knee braces, suggesting a former door to the left of the bay window.
Inside, there is a plaster coved cornice at the jetty of the middle section, and the upright joists at the jetty of the southern wing have shaped ends. The door to Number 89 is a six-panel early 19th-century design, accessed by two steps and set within a reeded doorcase topped with a flat hood on shaped brackets. Number 87 has a half-glazed six-panel door with a broad flat hood supported by heavy brackets that spring from posts flanking the door, also accessed by two steps.
Local climate
White Hart House, and Number 89 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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