White Hart House, And Number 89

TL 3629 BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET (west side)

7/62 No 87 (White Hart House), and No 89 22.2.67 (formerly listed as Nos 87 and 89)

GV II

House, sometime The White Hart Inn, now 2 houses. C17 or earlier N crosswing (No 89), the rest C19. Timber frame on painted brick sill to N wing, roughcast with applied half timbering to front above jetty. Red brick ground floor and half-timbered elevation above jetty in later parts. Steep old red tile roofs. A H-plan, 2 storeys house facing E with lower ancient N crosswing, central chimney a third from N end, and gabled and jettied S wing. Each house has 2 windows on each floor and door into middle part beside a crosswing. C19 3-light mullioned and transomed flush casement windows in each gable and flanking the door of No 87. Similar 2-light window to left of door to No 89 and canted brick early C18 bay window with leaded glazing under high jetty of N wing. This has heavy bull-nosed joists and knee braces indicating a former door to left of bay window. Plaster coved cornice to jetty of middle part: shaped ends to upright joists to jetty of S wing. 6-panel early C19 door to No 89 up 2 steps inreeded doorcase with flat hood on shaped brackets. Half- glazed 6-panel door to No 87 with broad flat hood carried on heavy brackets springing from posts flanking door. 2 steps. (RCHM (1911) 140 No 18).

Listing NGR: TL3612929688