White Hart Inn

WYMONDHAM

TF1001 MARKET STREET 655-1/8/119 (North side) 29/12/50 No.29 White Hart Inn

II

Public House. Early C17 timber-framed inn, probably immediately after fire of 1616, with a mid C18 saloon and brick facade. Pantiled roof, black glazed to front. 2 storey facade in 7 bays plus bay over segmental carriage entrance to west (left). Doorway in third bay (from left) entered through double-leaf 3 panel doors. Eared surround and open pediment. Ground floor sashes under segmental gauged skewback arches with painted keystones. First floor sashes with square heads. All sashes with mid C18 glazing bars and flush frames. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks and ridge stack left of centre. Rear with a mid C18 rendered 2 storey gabled cross wing to east (the saloon) lit through 3 late C20 windows at first floor. Ground floor with various C20 additions. INTERIOR. Original timber building was one room deep, the upper rear wall of which survives internally, pierced by a 2-light ovolo-moulded casement and a renewed open 3-light window. Ground floor with one sunk-quadrant bridging beam to west with jewelled tongue stops. A further beam to the east has polygonal tongue stops of Market Cross design. First floor with jowled principal studs, tension braces to corners and sunk-quadrant bridging beams. Outshut at east end replaced mid C18 with saloon. 2-storey interior with wall niches to north, south and east walls, the last round-headed, the others arched with open pediments. Both types have fluted pilasters.

Listing NGR: TG1098401520