White Horse Inn

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5208SW NORTHGATE STREET 839-1/11/135 (West side) 05/08/74 Nos.12 AND 13 White Horse Inn (Formerly Listed as: NORTHGATE STREET, Whitehorse Plain Nos.12 AND 13 White Horse Inn)

GV II

Public house in 2 distinct builds. Early and mid C18 with subsequent alterations and renovations. Red brick and flint under pantiled roofs. EXTERIOR: No.12 is in 2 storeys and 3-window range having been truncated in late C20. Slightly curved facade. Central passageway to rear yard has a timber facade added in later C19: 3 fluted pilasters supporting a metope frieze under a mutulated cornice on which stands a low balustraded parapet. The pilasters frame a pair of iron gates and a fixed window. Right and left is an 8/8 sash window under finely-gauged skewback arches fitted into reduced window openings made for horizontal mullioned windows. 3 similar windows to the first floor, also in reduced openings. Low parapet below the gabled roof. Internal gable-end stack to north. The south return rebuilt under a shaped gable in late C20. The rear has a segmental relieving arch over the carriageway and there is a storeroom door and a one-light window to the ground floor, both late C20. Late C19 rear extension abuts to the north. No.13 was added mid C18, is of 3 storeys in 2 bays and is separated by a butt join from No.12. The ground floor and first floor with a combined timber door and window case extending through 2 storeys and rebuilt mid C20: metope frieze to the ground floor and a broken pediment over the 6/6 first-floor sash. One 6/6 recessed sash each floor left, with an additional narrow 2/2 sash to the left at the ground floor, and two 3/3 segmental sashes to the second floor. Low parapet with a gabled roof. Internal gable-end stack to north. There is a parallel rear block of the C19: red brick, gabled pantiled roof, sash windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TG5230908069