The White Hart Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. A Post-Medieval Inn. 5 related planning applications.
The White Hart Inn
- WRENN ID
- gentle-truss-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- Inn
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The White Hart Inn, 79, High Street, Wickham Market, IP13 0RA
- OS grid reference
- TM 301 558
- Coordinates
- 52.15294, 1.36321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Hart Inn is a coaching inn, now operating as a hotel and public house. It has a late 15th-century core, but was largely rebuilt with a late 18th-century red brick facade. The building is laid out in an 'L' shape, with a rear range constructed of timber framing and roughcast. It has pantiled hipped roofs. The front elevation has two storeys and a nine-window range, featuring sash windows within flush frames, with glazing bars and flat gauged brick arches. One first-floor window on the left-hand side is blocked. A portico in-antis, with partially fluted engaged Ionic columns and an entablature, provides access to the main entrance, which features a six-panelled door with matching linings. Two further entrances to the bars are visible; one a four-panelled door with upper glazing, the other a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight and entablature. A range extending to the yard has irregular window placement, mostly modern casements. Four brick stacks are situated along the front roof ridge and at the hipped ends. Inside the lounge bar is a good roll-moulded beam with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
The White Hart Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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