White Hart Inn

The White Hart Inn, now a public house with a manager’s flat, dates to the 17th century, with alterations in the 18th century and internal changes following a fire in the 1980s. It is timber-framed and plastered with red brick facing, laid in a Flemish bond pattern, and has an old tiled roof, hipped at a corner. The building is arranged in an L-shape.

The north wing has been refaced in brick with three 12-pane sash windows on each of the ground and first floors, set flush within architraves and under rubbed brick flat arches. A plat band runs along the first floor. The north elevation of the south range has also been refaced in brick, with three 12-pane sash windows on the first floor, similarly spaced and with a plat band. On the ground floor of the south range, a modern glazed entrance screen is located to the right, along with a panelled artificial stone stallriser and a projecting pilaster flanking the fascia panel. A single 12-pane sash window occupies the far right corner, where the ground floor is splayed and supported by moulded, corbelled brickwork with an ogee profile, which carries a jettied first-floor corner.

The first floor west elevation shows exposed 17th-century thin studwork, plastered and colourwashed, with panels between. A 12-pane sash window is to the right, with a roll-moulded first-floor bressumer. The recessed ground floor of the south range features a timber arcade with Tuscan Doric columns on plinths, with plastered panels between. This is flanked by two 12-pane sash windows and a pair of 20th-century entrance doors to the right. Five 20th-century gable dormers are set into the roof. A large, flat-roofed extension at the rear is not of particular interest.

The interior ground floor has been largely opened out and altered. An exposed beam with mortices indicates a former set-back stud front wall behind the arcade. A new staircase, with a close string, column-on-vase balusters and a moulded handrail, has been installed. The first floor and attic spaces retain few visible historic features and the roof structure was renewed after the fire.