The White Hart

A public house, formerly an inn, probably dating to the late C17 but substantially rebuilt in the late C18, and further altered in the C20.

MATERIALS: flint and brick, under a pantile-clad roof. The facade is rendered and colourwashed. The stable is constructed of brick laid in English bond, colourwashed, with a pantile-clad roof.

PLAN: the building is situated on the corner of Cley Road and London Street, facing east onto the latter. The main range is square on plan with a rear wing on the south-west corner which is attached to the stable to the west, oriented north-south.

EXTERIOR: the White Hart Inn has two storeys and an attic under a pitched roof with an internal gable-end stack to the south. The façade is four window bays wide and has pilaster strips at the corners and another defining the first bay. These rise to the parapet which has a plain moulded cornice and a long, narrow recessed panel, giving the impression of a frieze. The centrally placed half-glazed door is set within a fluted timber doorcase which has a dentilled architrave and plain hood. The fenestration consists of six-over-six pane unhorned, recessed sash windows; one to the left of the front door, two to the right, and four on the first floor. There are three flat-topped dormers positioned wholly in the roof space.

The right gable end is lit on both floors by six-over-six pane sashes. The subsidiary rear wing has a flat roof and is lit on the first floor by three similar, irregularly spaced sashes, and on the ground floor by two horizontal, top-opening windows of C20 date.

INTERIOR: the ground floor has been opened into a single space.