White Hart Inn

HERTFORD

TL3212NE SALISBURY SQUARE 817-1/17/197 (East side) 10/02/50 White Hart Inn

GV II

Inn, now public house with manager's flat over. C17, partly refronted C18, altered internally 1980s after fire. Timber-framed and plastered, red brick, laid to Flemish bond. Old tiled roof with hipped corner. L-plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. North wing refaced in brick, 3 flush-set 12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds under rubbed brick flat arches, spaced 2:1, to ground and first floors. Plat band at first-floor level. North elevation of south range refaced in brick. First floor with 3 flush-set 12-pane sash windows, spaced 2:1, and first-floor plat band. Ground floor has early C20 glazed entrance screen at right, panelled artificial stone stallriser, projecting pilaster at right flanking fascia panel beneath sill level of first-floor windows. To right, single flush-set 12-pane sash, far right corner splayed at ground-floor level, with moulded corbelled brickwork with ogee profile supporting jettied first-floor corner of west elevation. First floor has exposed C17 thin studwork with primary bracing, plastered and colourwashed panels between; flush-set 12-pane sash to right, roll moulded first-floor bressumer. Recessed 3 bay ground floor, with timber Tuscan Doric columns on plinths forming an arcade, plastered between, with 2 flush-set 12-pane sash windows and twin leaf C20 entrance doors at right. To roof 5 C20 gable casement dormers, all replaced after fire. Large flat roofed extension at rear is not of special interest. INTERIOR: much opened out and altered on ground floor, exposed beam with mortices indicates the earlier presence of a set-back stud front wall behind the originally open arcade. Close string newel stair with column on vase balusters and moulded handrail. First floor and attics retain few visible features of historic interest, and roof structure renewed after fire. (East Herts Archaeological Society Newsletter: The White Hart Inn: Hertford: 1949-1954).

Listing NGR: TL3269812624